Effective context engineering for AI agents
by Anthropic
Treats context as a finite budget: compaction, notes, sub-agents.
Anthropic discusses choosing and maintaining the information available to an agent. The article is useful when longer-running work begins to lose important details or accumulate irrelevant context.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Models
- any
- Category
- Agents and harnesses
- Tags
- context-engineering
- Source date
- 2025-09-29
- Added
- 2026-10-18
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
- Status
- ok
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