context engineering

19 Articles

AI Tool Output Verification: Did It Establish a Fact?

A 2026 guide to AI tool output verification: distinguish successful calls from supported facts, classify incomplete observations, and evaluate claims with independent fixtures and provenance.

November 1, 2026• 21 min read
ai tool output verificationagent evidence verificationtool calling evaluation

Negation in Information Retrieval: Recall vs. Violations

A 2026 research report on negation in information retrieval: NevIR and ExcluIR evidence, recall versus exclusion metrics, and a reproducible collection-level release protocol for retrievers and rerankers.

October 30, 2026• 21 min read
negation in information retrievalsemantic searchnegative constraints

Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Practical Guide

What context engineering is, how it differs from prompt engineering, and how to budget an agent's context by origin, provenance and keep/compress/drop.

October 28, 2026• 15 min read
context engineeringcontext engineering for ai agentscontext engineering vs prompt engineering

AI Agent Handoff Testing: Did the Evidence Reach the Agent?

A 2026 research report on AI agent handoff testing: source-span obligations, verified fault injection, recipient-visible evidence, paired scoring and independent recovery before accepting downstream claims.

October 27, 2026• 22 min read
ai agent handoff testingfault injectionevidence provenance

RAG citation provenance: did generated context become evidence?

A 2026 evaluation report on RAG citation provenance: distinguish HyDE hypotheses and generated prefixes from original evidence, build paired exposure tests, and validate retained source spans.

October 24, 2026• 24 min read
rag citation provenancesource attributionhyde

Data Provenance Privacy: A Recipient Disclosure Test

A 2026 guide to data provenance privacy: evaluate recipient permissions, redact citation metadata, count exposed graph paths, and decide when evidence is too limited to justify sharing a value.

October 22, 2026• 22 min read
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RAG chunking sensitivity: can boundaries reverse answers?

A 2026 research report on RAG chunking sensitivity, with a paired boundary-phase protocol, complete-support annotations, fixed-token comparisons and evidence-based release criteria.

October 21, 2026• 23 min read
rag chunking sensitivityrag chunk boundary effectsrag chunking evaluation

Entity Resolution Human Review: Which Decisions Need It?

A 2026 guide to entity resolution human review: accept, review, or hold unresolved. Includes a decision card, fixed-capacity harm calculations, reviewer disagreement, and audit uncertainty.

October 16, 2026• 22 min read
entity resolution human reviewhuman in the loopentity matching

AI Agent Memory Deletion Verification: Counterfactual Tests

A 2026 protocol for verifying AI agent memory deletion with never-exposed controls, multi-channel disclosure probes, behavioral residuals, retained utility and explicit evidence boundaries.

October 15, 2026• 22 min read
ai agent memory deletion verificationcounterfactual evaluationagent memory

Permission-aware RAG evaluation: Can you defend the answer?

A 2026 evaluation protocol for reader-eligible RAG evidence, with matched permission cases, claim-level provenance cards, and separate utility, disclosure, and citation-support measurements.

October 14, 2026• 25 min read
permission-aware rag evaluationpermission-aware retrievalenterprise rag evaluation

Knowledge graph identifier versioning after corrections

A 2026 guide to knowledge graph identifier versioning: stable referents, correction responses, retirement and custody transfer, with a lifecycle matrix, historical replay tests and a proposed registry schedule.

October 12, 2026• 24 min read
knowledge graph identifier versioningpersistent identifiersknowledge graphs

How to evaluate data sources for a knowledge graph

A 2026 guide to knowledge graph source admission: permission, provenance, versioning, sampled coverage and freshness, with an evidence card and accept, defer or reject decisions tied to a named question.

October 12, 2026• 25 min read
knowledge graphdata source evaluationsource admission

Long context LLM robustness: Does evidence position matter?

A 2026 research report on long context LLM robustness: evidence-position tests, separate answer and citation verdicts, frozen source versions, and paired bootstrap uncertainty for context engineers.

October 10, 2026• 25 min read
long context llm robustnessllm evidence position biaslost in the middle

OWL vs SHACL: Entailment or Constraint? A Test Card

OWL vs SHACL in 2026: classify requirements by entailment or graph acceptance, test missing and inconsistent values, and preserve a reproducible packet with explicit inference settings and expected reports.

October 9, 2026• 25 min read
owl vs shaclowl reasoningshacl validation

Multi-Hop RAG Citation Completeness: An Evidence-Set Test

A 2026 evidence-set test for multi-hop RAG citation completeness: distinguish answer correctness, joint support and missing hops, preserve source versions, and audit alternative evidence routes.

October 7, 2026• 23 min read
multi-hop rag citation completenessrag evaluationevidence sets

SKOS Concept vs OWL Class: A Modeling Decision Test

A 2026 modeling test for SKOS concepts versus OWL classes, covering hierarchy semantics, punning, RDF fixtures, validation obligations and migration boundaries for context engineers.

October 6, 2026• 24 min read
skos concept vs owl classskosowl

RAG data poisoning: can poisoned sources become facts?

A 2026 integrity protocol for RAG data poisoning: versioned source fixtures, separate retrieval and citation scores, paired controls, confidence intervals, and correction replay. No executed enterprise test is claimed.

October 4, 2026• 24 min read
rag data poisoningai citation poisoningindirect prompt injection

How to Validate Knowledge Graph Embedding Predictions

A 2026 protocol for validating knowledge graph embedding predictions against original source spans, identity and time boundaries, then measuring supported-value precision and downstream answer support.

October 1, 2026• 25 min read
knowledge graph embedding predictionslink prediction validationknowledge graph fact verification

LLM Context Compression Evidence Loss: An Acceptance Test

A 2026 guide to testing LLM context compression for evidence loss, with paired source bundles, exact-span scoring, citation-grounding data, and release rules for defensible answers.

September 25, 2026• 24 min read
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