---
id: "rlancemartin-context-engineering-for-agents"
title: "Context Engineering for Agents"
creator: "Lance Martin"
url: "https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/06/23/context_engineering/"
level: "intermediate"
category: "agents"
models: ["any"]
source_date: "2025-06-23"
date_added: "2026-10-18"
---

[Agents and harnesses](/agents/index.md)

# Context Engineering for Agents

by Lance Martin

[Read the original →](https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/06/23/context_engineering/)

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: [Agents and harnesses](/agents/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

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