BEFORE YOU EVALUATE AN AI SRE, GIVE YOUR EXISTING AGENT CONTEXT

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Engineers at Radar tested whether adding context to coding agents improves Kubernetes diagnostics. When running 50 fault scenarios, agents with context reached a correct diagnosis within two minutes on 86% of faults, compared to 60% for agents using a standard shell. Accuracy improved only slightly with context, but the time savings were significant. The test used Claude Code and Microsoft's SREGym benchmark on a live Amazon EKS cluster.