Paper · 2025-12-05
Everything is Context
A file-system abstraction for organizing, retaining and governing context for agents.
arXiv · arXiv:2512.05470v1
The full title is Everything is Context: Agentic File System Abstraction for Context Engineering. Context here means information and resources an AI agent needs for its task. The paper proposes a file-system abstraction for organizing that context, with mounting, metadata and access control for resources from different sources.
Paper details
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiwei Xu, Robert Mao, Quan Bai, Xuewu Gu, Yechao Li, Liming Zhu |
| First submitted | December 5, 2025 |
| Version | arXiv:2512.05470v1, preprint |
| Original language | English |
| DOI | 10.48550/arXiv.2512.05470 |
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