# The Missing Half of the Enterprise Context Layer

DevFeed: [The Missing Half of the Enterprise Context Layer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-missing-half-of-the-enterprise-context-layer-83747.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dagster.io/blog/the-missing-half-of-the-enterprise-context-layer>)

Author: Alex Noonan

Published: 2026-04-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Dagster](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dagster.md>)

Topics: [AI Context Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-context-management.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [mcp grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp-grafana.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [context-graph](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-graph.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-stack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-stack.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipeline.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>)

## AI overview

Enterprise AI agents need operational context alongside business definitions to judge whether data is current and trustworthy. The article describes how Dagster's asset materializations, run status, dependencies, freshness signals, and quality results can flow into Atlan's Enterprise Context Layer, including for structured and unstructured data workflows.

## Source excerpt

AI agents that only understand business definitions without knowing whether the underlying pipeline actually succeeded are confidently wrong and operational context from the orchestrator is the missing piece.