After enabling automatic conversation summarization between agent handoffs, auditors find that a critical contractual exclusion present in the original transcript is missing from later specialist contexts, replaced by a softer paraphrase that changes meaning. Which issue is occurring and what should you do?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Answer D. Summary drift is a listed context-window failure mode: compaction rewrites meaning. Critical legal exclusions must live as structured, validated fields re-injected on handoff—not only inside free-text summaries. RAG health, GPU SKUs, and CDN caches do not explain semantic loss in agent summaries.
Full Explanation
Correct answer: D. Diagnose summary drift and entity continuity issues. Free-text summarizers can drop or soften constraints. Mitigation: extract must-keep entities (exclusions, amounts, parties) into structured state; run automatic checks that summaries still entail those facts; fall back to quoting source spans for high-risk clauses.
A is incorrect: the failure is in inter-agent context compaction, not retrieval of knowledge documents.
B is incorrect: compute SKU changes do not alter summary semantics.
C is incorrect: static content delivery is unrelated to conversational state.
Treat high-risk fields as first-class multi-agent memory with lifecycle and audit trails.