Every week, another coding agent demo shows a prompt turning into a pull request in under five minutes. These demos often highlight a narrow use case not yet in production, and they skip everything that happens after the commit.

The pull request doesn’t include a link to the issue it was supposed to fix. The CI/CD pipeline fails because the agent didn't know about a recently added linter rule. A security scan flags a dependency the agent pulled in without checking the project's approved list.

These are context failures, and they determine whether agentic coding accelerates delivery or creates rework.…