What is context engineering? The four operations that decide whether your agent survives production
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Context engineering for AI agents is the practice of deciding what the model sees at every step of a run: its instructions, the live task state, retrieved evidence, memory and tool definitions. Prompt engineering writes the instructions. Context engineering decides everything else that reaches the…
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What is context engineering? The four operations that decide whether your agent survives production