Skills
Anthropic Context Engineering Guide: Write-Select-Compress-Isolate Framework for Production AI Agent Context Management
Anthropic published an engineering guide on effective context engineering for AI agents, formalizing the discipline beyond prompt engineering. The guide establishes context engineering as 'the practice of intentionally designing and managing the input that surrounds an LLM during a task' with key management patterns: progressive disclosure (controlling what loads and when), compression (shrinking accumulated history), routing (directing queries to the right source), evolved retrieval (external knowledge on demand), and tool management (controlling the capability surface). QCon London 2026 featured a dedicated talk on the topic.
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