Context engineering
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Master context engineering for AI agent systems. Use when designing agent architectures, debugging context failures, optimizing token usage, implementing memory systems, building multi-agent coordination, evaluating agent performance, or developing LLM-powered pipelines. Covers context fundamentals, degradation patterns, optimization techniques (compaction, masking, caching), compression strategies, memory architectures, multi-agent patterns, LLM-as-Judge evaluation, tool design, and project development.
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Context Engineering
Context engineering curates the smallest high-signal token set for LLM tasks. The goal: maximize reasoning quality while minimizing token usage.
When to Activate
- Designing/debugging agent systems
- Context limits constrain performance
- Optimizing cost/latency
- Building multi-agent coordination
- Implementing memory systems
- Evaluating agent performance
- Developing LLM-powered pipelines
Core Principles
- Context quality > quantity - High-signal tokens beat exhaustive content
- Attention is finite - U-shaped curve favors beginning/end positions
- Progressive disclosure - Load information just-in-time
- Isolation prevents degradation - Partition work across sub-agents
- Measure before optimizing - Know your baseline
Quick Reference
| Topic | When to Use | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals | Understanding context anatomy, attention mechanics | context-fundamentals.md |
| Degradation | Debugging failures, lost-in-middle, poisoning | context-degradation.md |
| Optimization | Compaction, masking, caching, partitioning | context-optimization.md |
| Compression | Long sessions, summarization strategies | context-compression.md |
| Memory | Cross-session persistence, knowledge graphs | memory-systems.md |
| Multi-Agent | Coordination patterns, context isolation | multi-agent-patterns.md |
| Evaluation | Testing agents, LLM-as-Judge, metrics | evaluation.md |
| Tool Design | Tool consolidation, description engineering | tool-design.md |
| Pipelines | Project development, batch processing | project-development.md |
Key Metrics
- Token utilization: Warning at 70%, trigger optimization at 80%
- Token variance: Explains 80% of agent performance variance
- Multi-agent cost: ~15x single agent baseline
- Compaction target: 50-70% reduction, <5% quality loss
- Cache hit target: 70%+ for stable workloads
Four-Bucket Strategy
- Write: Save context externally (scratchpads, files)
- Select: Pull only relevant context (retrieval, filtering)
- Compress: Reduce tokens while preserving info (summarization)
- Isolate: Split across sub-agents (partitioning)
Anti-Patterns
- Exhaustive context over curated context
- Critical info in middle positions
- No compaction triggers before limits
- Single agent for parallelizable tasks
- Tools without clear descriptions
Guidelines
- Place critical info at beginning/end of context
- Implement compaction at 70-80% utilization
- Use sub-agents for context isolation, not role-play
- Design tools with 4-question framework (what, when, inputs, returns)
- Optimize for tokens-per-task, not tokens-per-request
- Validate with probe-based evaluation
- Monitor KV-cache hit rates in production
- Start minimal, add complexity only when proven necessary
Scripts
- context_analyzer.py - Context health analysis, degradation detection
- compression_evaluator.py - Compression quality evaluation