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title: "The Cats of Context and Chaos | Free Cartoons to Share"
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description: "One calm cat, many enterprise-AI disasters. Browse every cartoon from the Context and Chaos newsletter - free to download and share in your own posts about context engineering, AI governance, and data."
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**The Cats of Context & Chaos.** One calm cat, many enterprise-AI disasters. Every cartoon from the [Context & Chaos](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/) newsletter, in one place, free to download and drop into your own posts. Use them anywhere; a link back to Context & Chaos is appreciated, never required. A new cat every week with each issue.

## The cartoons, newest first

Each entry: the caption, the issue it appeared in, a description of the drawing, and the downloadable image.

- **You recorded who said yes. Who decided?** From [Your Ontology Records Permission. It Does Not Resolve Authority.](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/your-ontology-records-permission-not-authority/). Two-panel cartoon. In the first panel, titled Behind the Decision, a tabby cat behind an Engineering nameplate leans over a vendor proposal while an orange cat behind a Formal Approver nameplate holds an Approved stamp and asks, are we approving this? In the second panel, titled What the Agent Records, a small robot behind an AI Agent nameplate holds up a sheet marked approver confirmed, and a grey professor cat in glasses and a tweed jacket points at it and says, you recorded who said yes. Who decided? [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-your-ontology-records-permission-not-authority-cats.webp)
- **Now we can keep up.** From [The Operating Model for Shipping AI-Generated Context](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/the-operating-model-for-ai-generated-context/). Two-scene storefront cartoon under a sign reading Company Data Catalog. On the left, behind a closed rope barrier, an orange tabby in a hoodie labelled DG Lead gestures at towering stacks of paper marked metadata to write and says just write all the metadata, then we can launch, while two exhausted steward cats slump at a desk beneath a closed sign. On the right, under a sign reading reviewed and ready, a grey professor cat in tweed high-fives a small robot labelled AI agent across a counter of green-ticked context cards marked business context and says now we can keep up, while an analyst cat and another AI agent walk away holding ticked context cards of their own. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-the-operating-model-for-ai-generated-context-cats.webp)
- **You made the broken process faster.** From [Four Architectures That Make AI Work](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/four-architectures-that-make-ai-work/). Three-panel cartoon titled AI doesn't fix the process, it hits copy. An orange tabby holding a folder marked current process tells a robot labelled AI agent to make it autonomous. The robot feeds the folder into a photocopier marked automate, which spits out sheets marked automated decision. In the final panel both stand cheering on a mountain of identical automated decision sheets while a grey professor cat in glasses holds up two of them and says you made the broken process faster. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-four-architectures-that-make-ai-work-cats.webp)
- **That wasn't the question.** From [Where Should the Graph Live?](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/where-should-the-graph-live/). A cartoon conference stage where an orange cat in a blazer throws his arms wide and shouts You get a graph database, beneath a screen reading Every business is a graph, while three cats in the audience hold cards saying 3 fixed joins, FAQ lookup and daily report, and a professor cat with a clipboard replies That was not the question. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-where-should-the-graph-live-cats.webp)
- **The catalog has a new reader.** From [Is the Data Catalog Finally Dead?](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/the-data-catalog-for-humans-is-dying/). A two-panel cartoon: on the left a cat squints at a data catalog search page surrounded by reference books labelled data, business terms, lineage and ownership; on the right a cat in an AI hoodie receives context from the catalog and gets back a single answer with meaning, lineage, ownership and policy already checked. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-the-data-catalog-for-humans-is-dying-cats.webp)
- **Great. When was this true?** From [AI Ontology: Bottom-Up Doesn't Mean Starting From Scratch](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/ai-ontology-bottom-up-doesnt-mean-starting-from-scratch/). Wide cartoon titled the ontology knows who said it, it just doesn't know when they were right. An orange tabby cat wearing an ontology team badge proudly presents a museum display case holding a placard reading win rate 27 percent, source CRM ticked, confidence high ticked. The plaque on the plinth reads valid during, followed by a row of question marks. A grey professor cat in glasses and a tweed jacket points at the plaque and asks, great, when was this true? A note in the corner reads 32,237 claims mined. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-ai-ontology-bottom-up-doesnt-mean-starting-from-scratch-cats.webp)
- **Wrong 20,000.** From [Enterprise AI's 200-Millisecond Problem](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/enterprise-ais-200-millisecond-problem/). Wide cartoon titled the 200-millisecond packing problem. An orange tabby cat in a hoodie, sweating and wide-eyed, hauls an enormously overstuffed suitcase tagged 20,000 TOKENS, spilling loose papers, envelopes and chat bubbles across the airport floor. Ahead of him a narrow security gate is signed 200 ms. Past the gate a grey professor cat in glasses, a tweed jacket and a green bow tie sits calmly in a departure lounge seat holding one small case labelled DECISION TRACE, saying: Wrong 20,000. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-enterprise-ais-200-millisecond-problem-cats.webp)
- **Why are you the one walking it?** From [Your Agent Doesn't Need to Walk the Graph](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/your-agent-doesnt-need-to-walk-the-graph/). Two-panel cartoon. An orange tabby cat in an AGENT backpack sets off up a mountain covered in a dense graph past a signpost reading 17 hops to answer. In the second panel a professor cat beside a table of product, state and eligibility rows holds a card reading table, join, answer, distilled once from the same graph, and asks why are you the one walking it. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-your-agent-doesnt-need-to-walk-the-graph-cats.webp)
- **Every team produces context. No team owns it.** From [Gartner Hype Cycles 2026: Nobody Owns Context](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/gartner-hype-cycles-2026-nobody-owns-context/). Cartoon cat in a tweed jacket and bow tie sitting cross-legged on the floor between three closed doors labelled Data owns datasets, IT owns infrastructure, and AI owns models, beside a cardboard box marked Context. Caption reads every team produces context, no team owns it. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-nobody-owns-context-cats.webp)
- **Congratulations. Now who owns the arm?** From [Your Agents Are Code. Stop Governing Them Like Documents.](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/your-agents-are-code-not-documents/). Laboratory cartoon: a lab-coated cat cheers as a stitched-together AI agent comes to life, while a tweed-jacketed cat beside a tray of labelled spare parts (skill, tool, memory, MCP, credentials) asks who owns the arm. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-your-agents-are-code-not-documents-cats.webp)
- **You're still here.** From [AI Slop Produced by a Human Is a Yellow Flag](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/ai-slop-is-a-yellow-flag/). Cartoon of an orange cat in a hoodie sprinting on a treadmill labelled AI productivity that spits out slides, content, prototypes and agents onto the floor, while an older bespectacled cat in tweed sits in an armchair with a mug reading context over output, points at a signpost marked Outcome on the hill behind him, and says you're still here. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-ai-slop-is-a-yellow-flag-cats.webp)
- **I got long.** From [I Got Long](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/i-got-long/). Cartoon of two cats: an excited orange cat celebrates under a banner reading Agent #1 shipped, while an older grey cat with binoculars says I got long, watching a road of signs for agent #2, #7, and #28 wind toward context re-authoring on the horizon. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-i-got-long-cats.webp)
- **You dropped something.** From [The GitHub for Context Doesn't Exist Yet](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/the-github-for-context-doesnt-exist-yet/). Cartoon at the AI Engineer World's Fair: an excited cat rushes off carrying a box labeled New Agent while dropping papers labeled company context, sales playbooks, and ARR definition v7, as an older bespectacled cat holds one up and says you dropped something. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-the-github-for-context-doesnt-exist-yet-cats.webp)
- **The average isn't where the failures live.** From [Your AI Dashboard Is Hiding Its Worst Failures](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/your-ai-dashboard-is-hiding-its-worst-failures/). Boardroom cartoon: an orange cat celebrates an AI dashboard showing 92% with all-green checkmarks ('Everything's green!') while a grey bespectacled cat pulls back a curtain revealing the failing segments behind it - policy exceptions at 61%, first-time users, non-English queries, multi-system workflows, complex claims - saying 'The average isn't where the failures live.'. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-swati-tyagi-cats.webp)
- **Deployment isn't delivery. It's parenting.** From [Production AI & The False Finish Line](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/production-ai-the-false-finish-line/). Two-panel cartoon. Day 1, Deployment Day: a party of cats around a crib labelled 'AI Model' cheer 'It's a model!' with cake, balloons and 'Ship it!' cards. Day 90, Reality: a lone bespectacled cat returns to the same crib carrying stacked books (food, monitoring, retraining, governance, performance reviews) and asks 'Where did everyone go?' Caption: deployment isn't delivery, it's parenting. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-production-ai-false-finish-cats.webp)
- **The hill-climbing machine needs fuel. Stop the leaks. Compound the learning.** From [How to make Satya Nadella's vision a reality](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/how-to-make-satya-nadellas-vision-a-reality/). Cartoon of cats hauling an 'AI Agents' mine-cart up a hill toward 'Satya's Vision' along 'The Context Layer' track. Captions read 'The hill-climbing machine needs fuel. Stop the leaks. Compound the learning.' and 'Human capital + Token capital = Compounding learning.'. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-prukalpa-satya-vision-cats.webp)
- **You come to me with a column... and bring me no lineage.** From [The Godfather Problem](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/the-godfather-problem/). Godfather-themed cartoon: a distinguished 'Don of Context' cat in a leather chair turns away an AI-agent cat who presents a data column with no lineage. A nameplate reads 'The Don of Context - Meaning is earned.'. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-godfather-cats.webp)
- **Everyone owns context now. The question that didn't have a booth: who owns revenue?** From [Snowflake Summit 2026: Everyone Owns Context Now.](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/snowflake-summit-2026-everyone-owns-context-now/). Trade-show cartoon: a crowd of cats at 'Snowflake Summit 2026 - Everyone owns context now' hold booth signs (Semantic Layer, Metadata & Lineage, Agent Governance, Open Standards, Knowledge Graphs, Vector Stores, 'Context solved!'). Two cats point to a wall asking 'Who owns revenue? Which definition is correct? Who updates it? - The question that didn't have a booth.'. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-snowflake-summit-2026-cats.webp)
- **The model didn't get smarter. The context did.** From [What an Enterprise Context Layer Actually Is](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/what-an-enterprise-context-layer-actually-is/). Cartoon contrasting Agent #1 'Day One' ('I think I can answer one question') with Agent #10 'Day Many' ('I've seen this before') around a central 'Context Layer - the company brain' machine of five capabilities. Banner reads 'The model didn't get smarter. The context did.'. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-prukalpa-cats.webp)
- **"We need a new theory for agent memory!" - "Welcome. We've been working on it."** From [Four Arguments Ontologists Never Finished (And Why AI Teams Will Have Them Again)](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/four-arguments-ontologists-never-finished/). Cave-library cartoon: an orange 'Building Agents' cat with a headlamp says 'We need a new theory for agent memory!' to a scholarly cat at a desk stacked with RDF and SHACL notes, who replies 'Welcome. We've been working on it.' Wall carvings list open-world assumption, reification, context graphs, and named graphs. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-kurt-cagle-cats.webp)
- **"Sarah left nine months ago." "Perfect. Deploy the agents."** From [Your AI Context Layer Is Being Built on Stale Metadata](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/your-ai-context-layer-is-being-built-on-stale-metadata/). Archaeological-dig cartoon: cats and an AI robot excavate an 'AI Context Layer powered by archaeological findings'. One cat notes 'Sarah left nine months ago' beside a stale record (Active customer = 3+ logins, owner: Sarah, last updated 2024); an orange cat cheers 'Perfect. Deploy the agents.'. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-cats-issue-006.webp)
- **"We upgraded the model." "We fixed the context." Same model, different moat.** From [If Intelligence Is Abundant, What Is the Moat?](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/if-intelligence-is-abundant-what-is-the-moat/). Two-panel cartoon. Left, 'We upgraded the model': a frazzled cat at a control panel where the newest model still returns conflicting revenue numbers - a 'definition conflict', outcomes all wrong. Right, 'We fixed the context': a calm cat whose verified numbers reconcile across finance and sales. Caption: same model, different moat. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-issue-005-cats.webp)
- **Onboarded vs. prompted: same job, different first day.** From [The Onboarding Gap is Killing your AI Agents](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/the-onboarding-gap-is-killing-your-ai-agents/). Two-panel cartoon 'Onboarded / Prompted.' A new-hire cat unpacks a 'Welcome to the team' box full of business definitions, org charts and tribal knowledge ('ask Sarah', 'never use the Q3 dashboard'); an AI-agent cat gets a single line - system_prompt 'You are a helpful data analyst.' Caption: same job, different first day. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-vivek-onboarding-cats.webp)
- **"What if the AI got it wrong?" "Compared to what?"** From [Your Team Isn't Afraid of AI. They're Afraid of Being Wrong.](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/your-team-isnt-afraid-of-ai-theyre-afraid-of-being-wrong-about-ai/). Two-panel cartoon titled 'The bar is blank. It has always been blank.' An anxious orange cat asks 'What if the AI got something wrong?'; a deadpan grey cat replies 'Compared to what?' - beside a data asset whose human-written description was empty all along. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-issue-004-cats.webp)
- **Nobody wrote down what any of this means, so I'm going with vibes.** From [Conceptual Modeling Is the Context Engineering Nobody Is Doing](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/conceptual-modeling-is-the-context-engineering-nobody-is-doing/). Cartoon: a frazzled grey 'AI Agent' cat at a keyboard runs the query 'What is our customer lifetime value?' while a thought bubble cycles conflicting definitions of 'customer' - 'Nobody wrote down what any of this means, so I'm going with vibes.'. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-issue-003-cats.webp)
- **Ontologist, 2021. Context engineer, 2026. Same cat, new crown.** From [Metadata Weekly Is Now Context and Chaos (& Cats!)](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/metadata-weekly-is-now-context-and-chaos/). Two-panel cartoon: 'Ontologist. Data Steward. Knowledge Specialist. 2021' - a weary orange cat buried in papers and old servers; 'Context engineer. 2026' - the same job, now a crowned grey cat on a throne labelled 'Context Engineering.'. [Image](https://atlan.com/images/context-and-chaos/cac-issue-001-comic.webp)