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title: "Inherited context · Glossary · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Inherited context: always-on context admitted at boot into every descendant actor's window: system prompt, CLAUDE.md / memory-file lines."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary/inherited-context"
last-updated: "2026-09-23"
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3. Inherited context

Glossary definition

# Inherited context

Atlas key

inherited-context

Catalog order

20

Used in

1 section

Catalog revision · e0cb75881244b1a82193ca738b82a0d508dd62e822524ae82873ec79d51dbb61

always-on context admitted at *boot* into every descendant actor's window: system prompt, `CLAUDE.md` / memory-file lines. No downstream actor chose it and none can evict it — the widest propagation scope, hence the system's highest admission bar. ([context economy](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy))

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## Used in

- [Context Flow](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-flow#model-and-claims) Model and claims · 1 mention