https://andreasnissen.dev/tags/agent-architecture/Recent content in Agent Architecture on Andreas NissenHugoen-us© Andreas NissenSun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://andreasnissen.dev/writing/context-and-control/Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://andreasnissen.dev/writing/context-and-control/<p>Enterprise AI agents need context and control.</p> <p>Context without control is unsafe. Control without context is blind.</p> <p>They belong in the same architecture, and they should not collapse into the same layer. A missing relationship degrades an answer. A missing authorization check can trigger an action the user never permitted. Those failures have different consequences, owners, and tests.</p> <h2 id="context-answers-what-the-agent-should-know">Context answers what the agent should know</h2> <p>Context is the evidence available for reasoning. It can include documents, structured records, tool results, conversation state, identity attributes, and the relationships between them.</p>