Context tree
Also written forensic
In AI incident forensics, a reconstruction of everything that entered a model's context during a session and where each piece came from — prompts, files read, pages fetched, tool results, sub-agent reports — arranged as a tree of sources leading to each action. It answers the question a flat log cannot: which input made the agent do this.
See also patient zero · context window · W3C Trace Context · AI in digital forensics
Related terms
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Patient zero
Defence & response
The first point at which malicious content entered an AI system in an incident — the poisoned web page, file, tool description or message an agent read…
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Context window
Agents & architecture
The text a model can take into account at once, measured in tokens: system prompt, conversation, tool definitions, file contents and tool results.
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W3C Trace Context
Frameworks & standards
A W3C Recommendation (November 2021) that standardises the HTTP headers carrying distributed-tracing context between services: traceparent gives a…
Defence & response
The vocabulary of running controls for agents: knowing what AI is present, cutting what it may do down to what it uses, catching misuse, and reconstructing an incident afterwards. Where MoorAI implements a term, a separate line under the definition says how; the definition itself stays vendor-neutral. To check one agent's configuration against these ideas, use the free permission right-sizer.