When Agent Context Goes Stale: Incoherence in Volatile Agent Context

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arXiv:2610.05281v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agents increasingly ground their reasoning in observations returned by tools, such as file contents read from a workspace. However, the data sources underlying these observations may later be modified by users, other agents, or external tools, while the model retains only the stale content in its context window. Existing agent runtimes provide little support for notifying the model that a previously observed fact has become stale, causing ag