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title: "Statelessness · Glossary · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Statelessness: treat each model invocation as a function of its declared window: retained conversation is logically presented again, and continuity must come…"
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1. [Agentic Atlas](https://agentic-atlas.dev/)
2. [Glossary](https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary)
3. Statelessness

Glossary definition

# Statelessness

Atlas key

statelessness

Catalog order

43

Used in

3 sections

Catalog revision · e0cb75881244b1a82193ca738b82a0d508dd62e822524ae82873ec79d51dbb61

treat each model invocation as a function of its declared window: retained conversation is logically presented again, and continuity must come from that window, platform-managed reconstruction, or external state—not presumed private mutable memory. Cost face: repeated admission. Feature face: explicit-state dispatches can be disposable and reproducible. ([statelessness](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/statelessness); cost → [context economy](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy), feature → validated seam / re-dispatch)

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## Used in

- [Context Efficiency](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-efficiency#definition) Definition · 1 mention
- [Context Flow](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-flow#model-and-claims) Model and claims · 1 mention
- [The Session Bill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/session-bill#before-the-baseline-bill) Before · 1 mention