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Context engineering
How to design the complete information environment around a model as a system: instructions, retrieved data, tool contracts, state, and memory, assembled by versioned, testable code rather than hand-crafted messages — the system-design layer above prompting and context management.
Questions in this set
- What is context engineering?
- What are the layers of a model context?
- How do instruction layers interact?
- How do you separate instructions from untrusted data?
- How should retrieval feed the model?
- How should tools be described?
- How do state and memory enter context?
- How do you allocate the token budget?
- How do you adapt context by task stage?
- How do you version context?
- How do you evaluate context quality?
- What does a minimal context architecture look like?
- When does context engineering become overengineering?
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