Bounded agent context and memory provenance in Rooms

A Room history and a run context are different records

A Room can accumulate discussion, rejected drafts, accepted artifacts and memory over time. Sending all retained information into every run would obscure which material was relevant and authorized for that task.

The Room lifecycle reference describes bounded context with provenance. This means an investigation should identify the selection used by the run. The existence of a document somewhere in the Room does not establish that the agent received it.

Preserve which version supported the output

In an illustrative policy question, version one of a document may support an earlier answer while version two changes the relevant rule. Keep the selected artifact or memory reference connected to the execution that produced each answer.

The knowledge bundle model provides immutable revisions and authorized reads. Use those coordinates when deciding whether the answer was based on stale information, an inappropriate selection or a model error despite correct context.

Keep the agent revision in the investigation

The same source material can be used by agents with different instructions or runtime profiles. The execution session retains the exact assigned revision and its operational context.

Review the selected information alongside that definition. A diagnosis that looks only at the current agent profile can accidentally attribute yesterday's result to instructions published afterward. Do not rewrite historical references when making a corrective configuration change.

Use bounded context as a reviewable contract

For your application, define what makes a message or artifact eligible for a task and how reviewers can inspect the resulting references. This is a recommended product contract; the article does not prescribe an undocumented retrieval algorithm or token limit.

Pay attention to excluded material as well. An agent should not gain cross-Room access simply because the retrieval path found a semantically similar document. Resource scope and revision authorization still constrain useful context.

Debug the answer through the retained selection

1. Locate the run and exact agent revision.
2. Inspect the selected messages, artifacts and memory references.
3. Resolve the applicable source versions under current access policy.
4. Compare the requested task with the context it actually received.
5. Record the correction as new work or configuration, preserving history.

The replay guidance supports reconstructing decisions from retained evidence. That reconstruction should explain the answer without assuming a fresh model call will reproduce the same text.