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Context Engineering

Context engineering

conceptPeak: 2025Context EngineeringAI consensus: 3/3

Prerequisites

  • Context engineering is prompt engineering elevated to a discipline — it subsumes prompt design, context selection, and memory management

  • Context engineering requires understanding how models process long contexts, where attention degrades, and how to structure information

  • Context engineering explicitly optimizes what goes into the context window — token economics is a core constraint

Recommended reference

Mei et al. (2025) 'A Survey of Context Engineering for LLMs' — arXiv:2507.13334; comprehensive survey of 1400+ papers. Practical: LangChain blog (2025) 'Context Engineering for Agents'

Notes from AI deep research

Anthropic Opus

NOWA DYSCYPLINA 2025. Karpathy: 'nowy system programming'. Subsumuje prompt eng + memory + retrieval + token optimization

OpenAI Deep Research

Token cost management [OA#28] + context window strategy [OA#12] — Radar traktuje łącznie

Google Deep Think

Zarządzanie kontekstem [G#28] + kompresja historii + pamięć

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