Prompting and context design · MLD-0206
Context engineering
Designing which information, instructions, memory, and tool outputs enter a model's context and when.
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Original example
Select relevant evidence for an agent's next step.
Original caveat
The term describes a broad engineering practice, not one algorithm.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Inference · Evaluation.
Tags: SLM · LLM · NLP.
Aliases: None recorded.
Related concepts
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Original references
- Anthropic: Building effective agents ↗ · Reference link
- Hugging Face: chat templates ↗ · Reference link
- Anthropic: Effective context engineering for AI agents ↗ · Reference link
- Transformers glossary ↗ · Consulted
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