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title: "Propagation scope · Glossary · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Propagation scope: how many windows an artifact will be billed in: one actor's (a skill body), every actor it's registered with (a description), or every…"
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1. [Agentic Atlas](https://agentic-atlas.dev/)
2. [Glossary](https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary)
3. Propagation scope

Glossary definition

# Propagation scope

Atlas key

propagation-scope

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how many windows an artifact will be billed in: one actor's (a skill body), every actor it's registered with (a description), or every descendant's (inherited context). Required value scales with it — the wider the scope, the higher the admission bar. ([context economy](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy))

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## Used in

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