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title: "Taste · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Taste: a distilled preview of a payload, sized and shaped to inform one decision: descend into this / skip it. Its consumer is a decider, not a reasoner."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary/taste"
last-updated: "2026-08-19"
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Glossary definition

# Taste

Atlas key

taste

Catalog order

47

Used in

3 sections

Catalog revision · 35263c4c415da742953d0462804fb14424e2244dae4c63efd27e468988de70ab

a distilled preview of a payload, sized and shaped to inform one decision: *descend into this / skip it*. Its consumer is a **decider**, not a reasoner. Output of distillation whose declared shape targets a navigation choice; the resident surface progressive disclosure reads at every node of its tree. Its quality — how faithfully it predicts what lies behind it — is its *scent* (kept informal). (progressive disclosure)

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## Used in

- [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation#relationships) Relationships · 1 mention
- [Deferred Context](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/deferred-context#structure-the-fetch-seam) Structure · 1 mention
- [Reference Data](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/reference-data#structure-authoring-a-corpus-to-be-searched-into) Structure · 1 mention