Generative horizon
The generative horizon is the operative, historically formed configuration through which a language-model agent interprets and generates: instructions, prior turns, retrieved records, tool results, summaries, corrections, and the statuses they carry. The represented situation is not only what the model computes about; it is part of what the model computes through. The term names a situated condition, not a hidden component inside the model.
How it manifests · In practice
In an agentic loop it shows up as the working state a step actually generates from: which records are treated as settled, which corrections are still operative, and which distinctions have receded. A retained summary or status label changes what a later step treats as relevant, sufficient, or authorized.
Evidence: The Generative Horizon (paper)
Related terms
- Recursive interpretive conditioning · Core concepts
- Applied hermeneutics · Core concepts
- Hermeneutic Drift · Context and meaning preservation