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  "slug": "building-agents-is-trivial-now-context-is-the-next-front-3c0b2ed056",
  "url": "https://feed7.dev/p/building-agents-is-trivial-now-context-is-the-next-front-3c0b2ed056",
  "title": "Building Agents Is Trivial Now, Context Is the Next Frontier — Jeff Ng, Unblocked",
  "why_included": "Retrieve code alongside decisions, incidents, tickets, and conversations so the agent does not repeat a known outage trigger.",
  "summary": "A coding agent with repository access still recommended a known outage trigger. Background agents need reconciled decisions and incident context, not just more raw MCP results.",
  "practical_implication": "For unattended coding agents, retrieve decisions, incidents, tickets, conversations, and code together. Reconcile conflicts, rank relevance, enforce permissions, and provide a synthesized task view rather than making each agent resolve raw MCP output.",
  "agent_context": "An agent investigating QA latency of **3–4 seconds** versus an expected **hundreds of milliseconds** recommended re-enabling async dispatch. It missed a later Slack discussion and Linear postmortem showing that setting had caused an outage.\n\nFor unattended coding agents, retrieve decisions, incidents, tickets, conversations, and code together. Reconcile conflicts, rank relevance, enforce permissions, and provide a synthesized task view rather than making each agent resolve raw MCP output.\n\nThe example demonstrates one corrected recommendation, not a measured reliability gain. Building and maintaining an organization-wide context model also introduces access-control, freshness, and conflict-resolution work.",
  "source": {
    "name": "AI Engineer",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvMyYLTfvhg",
    "published_at": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z"
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  "content_type": "Video",
  "layer": "context",
  "domains": [
    "coding"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "context-engineering",
    "retrieval",
    "mcp"
  ],
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  "connected_context": null,
  "lifecycle": "New",
  "published_at": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "modified_at": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "expires_at": null,
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