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id: "rlancemartin-context-engineering-for-agents"
title: "Context Engineering for Agents"
creator: "Lance Martin"
creator_url: "https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/06/23/context_engineering/"
url: "https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/06/23/context_engineering/"
level: "intermediate"
level_max: null
category: "context-engineering"
subcategory: "context-management"
region: "West"
license: "closed"
license_scope: "linked-resource"
models: ["any"]
source_date: "2025-06-23"
date_added: "2026-10-18"
---

[Context Engineering](/context-engineering/index.md)

# Context Engineering for Agents

by [Lance Martin](https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/06/23/context_engineering/)

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Write/select/compress/isolate taxonomy of context strategies.

This article organizes approaches to deciding what an agent retains and sees during a task. The taxonomy helps turn a vague context problem into concrete choices to test.

Level: [Intermediate](/levels/index.md#intermediate)
Models: any
Category: [Context Engineering](/context-engineering/index.md)
Tags: [context-engineering](/tags/context-engineering/index.md)
Source date: 2025-06-23
Added: 2026-10-18
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Status: ok
Prerequisites: Assumes basic LLM familiarity or the ability to read examples and configure a workflow.
Subcategory: [context management](/context-engineering/context-management/index.md)
Region: West
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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