Examples of Contexts

Contexts work best when they reflect the specific language, places, and resources your team actually uses. The examples below are organized by type to help you think through what's worth capturing for your organization. You don't need to cover everything at once — start with the entries that would have the biggest impact on your most frequently used Prompts and Agents, and add to them over time.

For guidance on adding context entries to your account, see Configuring Contexts.

Place names and local geography

These are among the most valuable context entries you can add. Craig retrieves data by location — the more precisely it understands the places you refer to, the more accurate its responses will be.

Local facility names Your team may refer to locations by names that wouldn't appear on a map or be recognized by Craig without definition.

• "The Compound" is our primary base of operations, located at 1234 Forest Service Road, Squamish, BC. Coordinates: 49.7016° N, 123.1558° W.
• "Station 4" is Fire Hall No. 4, located at 1420 East Pine Street, Bend, OR 97701
• "The Cache" is our equipment storage facility at the trailhead parking lot on Garibaldi Park Road.

Operational areas and jurisdictions Defining the boundaries of your operational area helps Craig scope data retrieval correctly when your Prompts reference "our area" or "the district."

• "Our jurisdiction" refers to Deschutes County, Oregon, covering approximately 3,055 square miles in central Oregon.
• "The search area" in winter operations typically refers to the Callaghan Valley and surrounding terrain between Whistler and Squamish.

Key access points and routes For teams where access routes are operationally significant — road conditions, closures, or hazards — defining them in context means Craig can reference them without needing a full description in every Prompt.

• "The south access" refers to the Forest Service Road off Highway 99 at kilometre marker 14. This road is seasonal and may be impassable after significant snowfall.
• "The upper helipad" is located at the north end of our main staging area. Coordinates: 50.1234° N, 122.9876° W. Elevation: 1,240 m.

Operational terminology and acronyms

Every organization uses shorthand that makes sense internally but would mean nothing — or something different — to Craig without definition.

Role and team identifiers

• "IC" means Incident Commander.
• "Duty Officer" refers to the on-call Emergency Manager for the current operational period.
• "HART" refers to our Heavy Animal Rescue Team, a specialized unit activated for large animal and technical rescue incidents.
• "Ground Branch" refers to the ground search element of our SAR team, as distinct from the air or marine elements.

Incident and operational terminology

• "Go/No-Go" refers to our internal weather and safety decision framework used before deploying crews into the field.
• "Operational period" refers to a standard 12-hour shift used in extended incident management.
• "The morning brief" refers to our 0700 operational briefing, at which point current conditions and resource status are reviewed.

Local place name variations Some locations are known locally by names that differ from their official designation.

• "The Flats" refers to the alluvial plain along the lower Lillooet River, which is the primary flood risk area in our jurisdiction.
• "Upper Valley" refers to the area north of the Highway 99 / Highway 12 junction, extending to the provincial border.

Equipment and resources

Defining key equipment in context means Craig can reference it accurately without needing a full description each time.

Vehicles and apparatus

• "Unit 7" is a Type 3 wildland engine assigned to Station 4, with a 500-gallon tank and crew capacity of three.
• "Rescue 1" is our heavy rescue unit, equipped for technical rope, confined space, and vehicle extrication.

Vessels

• "Vessel Alpha" is our primary response vessel, a 7-metre rigid inflatable boat with a crew capacity of six, based at the Squamish harbour.

Aircraft

• "Air 1" refers to the contracted helicopter assigned to our SAR group under our provincial standing offer agreement. It is based at the Squamish Airport.
• "The bird" refers to Air 1.

Communication infrastructure

• "Channel 3" is our primary tactical radio channel for ground operations.
• "The repeater" refers to the radio repeater on Mount Garibaldi, which extends our VHF coverage into the upper valley.

Monitored locations and thresholds

If your team monitors specific gauges, stations, or locations as part of your risk management or emergency planning, defining them in context means your Agents can reference them by the names your team uses.

Hydrometric stations

• "The river gauge" refers to the USGS hydrometric station on the Deschutes River near Madras, OR, station ID 14092500. Our flood action level is a gauge reading of 6 feet.
• "The upper gauge" refers to the WSC station on the Green River at Highway 99, station ID 08MG065.

Weather stations

• "The mountain station" refers to the Environment Canada weather station at Whistler Roundhouse, elevation 1,830 m.

Defined thresholds

• "Flood action level" for our jurisdiction is a Lillooet River gauge reading of 4.5 metres, as defined in our Emergency Response Plan.
• "Wind hold threshold" for aerial operations is sustained winds above 40 mph at the operational location.

A note on what not to include

Context entries are sent to the AI model when Craig runs. Do not include personal information such as names, phone numbers, or email addresses. Do not include passwords, credentials, or sensitive operational details. Context entries are intended for general organizational reference only.

For more information, see Craig: Data Handling and Privacy.