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title: "A Survey of Context Engineering for LLMs (arXiv 2507.13334)"
creator: "Mei et al. (Chinese Academy of Sciences et al.)"
creator_url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13334"
url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13334"
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category: "context-engineering"
subcategory: "context-management"
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[Context Engineering](/context-engineering/index.md)

# A Survey of Context Engineering for LLMs (arXiv 2507.13334)

by [Mei et al. (Chinese Academy of Sciences et al.)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13334)

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A research map of retrieval, context processing and memory systems.

Mei and coauthors organize context engineering into components and the systems built from them. The survey is useful for locating related work and distinguishing context construction from prompt wording alone.

Level: [Advanced](/levels/index.md#advanced)
Models: any
Category: [Context Engineering](/context-engineering/index.md)
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Source date: date not stated
Added: 2026-10-18
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Status: ok
Prerequisites: Requires implementation experience or critical reading of technical methods and system trade-offs.
Subcategory: [context management](/context-engineering/context-management/index.md)
Region: CN
Original language: en
Access: free
Resource reuse: closed: No general open-reuse grant established from the inspected page. Closed is the conservative index bucket, not a legal finding; the resource is publicly readable. [Facet definitions](/about/index.md#facets)

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