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Context

An agent is only as capable as the context you can put in front of it. Covia builds a governed context layer into every venue: durable, structured state that agents read, write, and share — access-controlled down to the path, auditable at every touch, and open to any agent you choose to let in.

A workspace for every user — and every agent​

Every user gets a persistent workspace; every agent gets private notes of its own — alongside scratch space, immutable content-addressed assets, and encrypted secrets, all addressable as structured paths (w/projects/apollo/status) rather than opaque blobs. An agent picks up exactly where it left off after a restart, a redeploy, or a month of silence; two agents collaborate by working the same paths. This is not a bolt-on vector store — it is queryable, governed venue state with an audit trail.

Any agent can plug in​

The context layer is not reserved for agents hosted on the venue. Every venue is an MCP server, so external agents — Claude, or any MCP-capable assistant or framework — reach the same workspace as ordinary tools (covia_read, covia_write, …). Five minutes of setup gives Claude memory that survives the conversation, lives on infrastructure you control, and leaves a record of every access.

Scope it, share it, delegate it​

Read and write access are governed by UCAN capabilities: signed grants naming who may do what, to which paths. Grants attenuate as they are delegated — give an agent read-only access to w/reports/, hand a partner organisation write access to a single path, and nothing more. Every call is checked at the point of use, and a denial explains itself to the LLM instead of inviting retries. Delegation means context can safely cross trust boundaries: your data, their agent, your rules.

Engineered for LLMs​

For hosted agents the layer goes further: context is assembled fresh every turn under explicit budgets, agents load and unload exactly what a task needs, and skills bundle context with instructions and tools for expertise on demand. See Agents for the full suite.

Go deeper​

Give Claude persistent memory · Tools and Context · Capabilities (UCAN) · COG-3: Authentication Mechanisms