Give agents context they can trust
Engineering field guide · Company context · Both days
How do you stop useful context from becoming stale context?
Day 1 tackles changing schemas and expert knowledge. Day 2 adds dated company facts and a shared gateway for tools, memory, and monitoring.
All topic guides · Practical takeaways
Where the approaches meet
Section titled “Where the approaches meet”The talks treat context as something to build and maintain. A large document collection helps only when the agent receives the right meaning, permissions, and evidence.
How the approaches differ
Section titled “How the approaches differ”| Session | Approach |
|---|---|
| Southbridge · Day 1 | Adapts schemas to the question and uses different model roles within a data pipeline. |
| Citadel Securities · Day 2 | Tracks dated beliefs about the organization, reconciles sources, and preserves history as facts change. |
| Intuit Credit Karma · Day 2 | Centralizes tool access, monitoring, memory, and context selection through shared infrastructure. |
Southbridge · Day 1 · Citadel Securities · Day 2 · Intuit Credit Karma · Day 2
Where the evidence stops
Section titled “Where the evidence stops”Compression can remove the evidence needed to notice a contradiction. A quiet data source is missing signal, not confirmation. The context optimizer’s reported savings describe its demonstrations and workloads.
Try this on your workload
Section titled “Try this on your workload”- Choose one status question and collect dated evidence from two sources.
- Keep source identifiers and timestamps while creating a shorter context for the agent.
- Test an outdated claim, conflicting updates, and a source that stops reporting.
Measure the result
Section titled “Measure the result”Compare correct answers, unsupported certainty, stale facts used, tokens consumed, and whether the agent can point back to the deciding evidence.
Read the source sessions
Section titled “Read the source sessions”- Southbridge · Day 1. Our session notes · Official reading edition · Source video
- Citadel Securities · Day 2. Our session notes · Source video
- Intuit Credit Karma · Day 2. Our session notes · Source video
The comparison and experiment are our editorial synthesis. They are not a reported benchmark or the speakers’ prescribed procedure.