Self-Contained Worker Context Principle
- Entity ID:
ent-20260419-385c1b0692cf - Type:
concept - Scope:
shared - Status:
active - Aliases: context isolation principle, worker context isolation
Description
Convergent principle: multi-agent parallelism is reliable only when workers receive specific, bounded instructions rather than referential ones. Claude Code's Coordinator Mode forbids prompts like 'Based on your findings, fix the auth bug' — workers must get 'Fix the null pointer in src/auth/validate.ts:42'. AutoBE achieves the same deterministically via 48 History Transformers that reduce 180KB full context to 8KB (95% reduction).
Key claims
- Coordinator Mode forbids referential worker prompts
- 48 History Transformers cut worker context 180KB -> 8KB (95%)
- Convergent design: Claude Code and AutoBE independently adopted three identical principles
- Explore subagent is the most-constrained agent prompt in the leaked source
Relations
- Coordinator Mode --[implements]--> Self-Contained Worker Context Principle
- Explore Agent Read-Only System Prompt --[implements]--> Self-Contained Worker Context Principle
- AutoBE --[implements]--> Self-Contained Worker Context Principle