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title: "Context envelope · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Context envelope: a distilled artifact handed across a seam: payload + declared shape + provenance. (context envelope)."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary/context-envelope"
last-updated: "2026-08-19"
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Glossary definition

# Context envelope

Atlas key

context-envelope

Catalog order

09

Used in

3 sections

Catalog revision · 35263c4c415da742953d0462804fb14424e2244dae4c63efd27e468988de70ab

a distilled artifact handed across a seam: payload + declared shape + provenance. (context envelope)

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## Used in

- [The Context Economy](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy#model-and-claims-the-price-list) Model and claims · 1 mention
- [The Contract](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/contract-documentation#why-it-matters) Why it matters · 1 mention
- [Effect Discipline](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/effect-discipline#model-and-claims) Model and claims · 1 mention