You save repeatable systems
You do not keep explaining from scratch the climate, rules, tensions, and goals of the place where the problem happens.
Step 5: create contexts and solve problems with Apply
Sometimes the problem does not change because you do not understand well `where` it happens. `Contexts` let you save the system where the case happens: company, family, friendship, project, school, team, or any frame with rules, climate, tensions, and participants.
Core idea
It is not enough to know who participates: the system where it happens also matters
The same conflict changes a lot depending on whether it happens in a family business, in a close friendship, in an unstable project, or in a closed community. Context gives the grammar of the case.
Apply gains situational precision
The file no longer reads only people or collectives: it also reads rules, environment, participants, and system tensions.
You can use the same context across cases
That helps compare conflicts happening inside the same system without rewriting everything.
Create the context
In `Contexts/Manage` you define name, category, type, system summary, environment, explicit or implicit rules, frequent tensions, goals, and typical participants.
Use assisted creation
The context area itself lets you describe the frame in general, download a prompt, and re-import structured JSON from external AI to complete the card.
Use it inside Apply
From `Apply` you can select available reusable contexts so the case does not float without a frame.
What is worth saving
Minimum signals that make a context useful
- What kind of system it is and what overall tone it has.
- Which rules are obeyed even if nobody says them out loud.
- Which tensions appear again and again.
- Which goals that system pursues.
- Who usually participates or gets affected.
Apply
What changes when the file includes context
The problem stops being seen as a sum of people and starts being read as a dynamic inside a system with climate, rules, and pressures.
The case becomes clearer faster
It becomes clearer which part of the problem belongs to the system and which part belongs to the people.
You see frame patterns
Useful for cases where climate or rules weigh as much as the bonds.
External AI receives a system, not only one scene
That avoids naive analyses based only on the last visible episode.
Ideal cases
When it helps to use contexts
Family
When the network of implicit rules matters, not only one concrete person.
Work
When the problem lives in culture, processes, or structure.
Projects
When the project system changes your decisions, timing, or conflicts.
Practical route
How to walk through this guide inside SELFTRACE
Context inventory
Check whether the system already exists or create a new one.
Complete the frame
Load rules, tensions, participants, and system goals.
Apply
Select the context inside the file and solve with that frame active.
Next step
After contexts, environments come next
Guide 6 will show how to create `environments` to gather actors, social entities, and contexts into one reusable collection.