Context Exchange
The passing of task-relevant state between agents so that a receiving agent can act without re-deriving what the sending agent already established.
Why it matters
Every exchange is a provenance event. If the receiving agent cannot say where a piece of context came from, the decision it informs is unreconstructable — which is the practical reason multi-agent audit is harder than single-agent audit.
Relationships
Typed edges into the rest of the ontology. These are what make the canon traversable rather than merely readable.
| Verb | Target | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
relatedTo | Task Delegation | An association too weak or too general for a stronger verb. |
produces | Audit Trail | The subject emits the object as an output. |
Record
| Canonical identifier | QIS-TERM-00011 |
| Status | Canonical industry term |
| Adoption | Experimental |
| Domain · Layer | Context & memory · Intelligence |
| Origin | A2A and multi-agent orchestration literature. |
| Semantic aliases | None recorded. |
| First published | 2026-08-02 |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-02 · 180-day cycle |
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