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Context Engineering

Context Engineering

📖One-line summary

Designing what information to put into an LLM's context window and in what order.

💡Easy explanation

Designing what to show the AI, what to leave out, and in what order. Like deciding which textbook pages to keep open during an exam — it changes the score.

Example

Design what goes into context, and in what order

#1System prompt
#23 retrieved docs (RAG)
#3Prior-turn summary
#4User question

Vibe coding prompt examples

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I want to improve RAG answer quality. Design what order to feed in the top 5 retrieved chunks and what metadata should accompany them.

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Our meeting-notes summarizer keeps blowing the context window. Design a chunking + rolling-summary strategy.

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We're building a codebase Q&A bot. Decide which files belong in the always-loaded context vs. fetched on demand, and write the priority guide.

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