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Context poisoning: how bad information breaks agent reasoning

calendar_today May 17, 2026 person Jim Allen Wallace domain redis

Your agent confidently tells a customer their order shipped two days ago. It didn’t. The order was canceled last week, but a stale cache entry surfaced in the agent’s context window, and the agent treated that outdated status as fact.

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