Context Engineering

Context engineering is the practice of selecting, ordering, compressing, and protecting the information a model receives.

Covered areas:

• System and developer instructions.
• User prompts.
• Retrieved context.
• Conversation state.
• Memory.
• Tools.
• Tool outputs.
• Policies.
• Repository instructions.
• Context prioritization.
• Compression.
• Provenance.
• Conflicting instructions.
• Agent state.

Each context item should have authority, source, freshness, and conflict handling.