Concept
Context Conflict
One of the context failure modes of AI agents. It refers to the presence of contradictory information or instructions in the context window, which makes it difficult for the model to determine which information should be used to carry out the task.
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Oct 25
There are four failure modes in agent context: context poisoning, context distraction, context confusion, and context clash.
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Oct 25
For context clash, the fix is cleanup: once information is superseded by a new conclusion, delete the old version and do not let the two coexist.
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