Five Context Failure Modes

• Missing: important information is absent.
• Stale: information is no longer current.
• Conflicting: instructions or sources disagree.
• Excessive: noise obscures what matters.
• Untrusted: material may be wrong, biased, unverifiable, or malicious.

Ask the chatbot to identify these conditions and report conflicts before resolving them.

---

Source: learning-library/cheatsheets/context-engineering/five-context-failure-modes.md