Context Engineering the Anthropic Way: How Claude's Skills, Compaction, and Memory Tools Manage the Window
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Originally published on dreaming.press . The short answer: context engineering is Anthropic's name for the discipline that replaced prompt engineering — curating the smallest set of high-signal tokens the model needs in its window on every turn , rather than just wording a prompt well. And Anthropi…
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- 2026-08-25 11:09 · DEV Community — AI
Context Engineering the Anthropic Way: How Claude's Skills, Compaction, and Memory Tools Manage the Window