Glossary / Context and meaning preservation
Context integrity
Context integrity is the degree to which relevant meaning, qualifiers, and constraints stay intact as context is retrieved, summarized, stored, transformed, and reused. A qualifier that changes the answer either survives or is lost along the way. Because later steps act on the context they inherit, degraded context produces plausible answers built on a damaged premise.
How it manifests · Tool-addressed
What preserving it looks like: Fidelis Memory, our zero-LLM memory, returns stored context verbatim instead of paraphrasing it, so a decisive qualifier survives retrieval and reuse rather than being smoothed away.
Evidence: Fidelis Memory
Related terminology
- context engineering
- semantic fidelity
- context preservation
- context drift
Not the same as
- contextual integrity
- context-window length