Agent Series (8): Context Engineering — Making Every Token Count

Context Engineering: More Than "Writing a Good Prompt" Anthropic's Agent best practices contain this line: "The most important skill in building agents is context engineering — the art of getting the right information into the model's context window at the right time." Context engineering sits below prompt engineering. It governs the entire context window: what goes in, how much of it, in what order, and what to drop when the budget