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# Context Plumbing Becomes a Product Surface

## Retrieval answer

These are not three breaking releases. As an evergreen architecture note, they map the control points that determine what an agent can know at each step.

Web tools, configuration changes, and memory retrieval expose the layer beneath the model: context must be connected, bounded, versioned, retrieved, and injected deliberately.

New Runtime reading: These are not three breaking releases. As an evergreen architecture note, they map the control points that determine what an agent can know at each step.

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