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6 articles tagged Context engineering, newest first. Each one is sourced and written for people who ship.
AI agents
·10 min read
Why LLM accuracy drops as context grows, and how clearing tool results, compaction, notes and sub-agents keep long-running agents on track.
Retrieval & search
·11 min read
Zep: a hosted agent-memory API on a temporal knowledge graph. Credits on writes, free retrieval, Flex from $125/month, Graphiti as the self-hostable part.
AI agents
·13 min read
How to design AI agent memory: context vs session vs long-term tiers, what to write and never store, retrieval, compaction, poisoning and GDPR erasure.
AI agents
·17 min read
rtk, lean-ctx, context-mode, Serena and 16 more token savers for coding agents, ranked by evidence, with my own measurements on a real Nuxt codebase.
AI agents
·12 min read
Orchestrator-worker, fan-out, critic, handoff: what multi-agent systems really buy you, what they cost in tokens, how they fail, and a table to decide.
AI agents
·8 min read
Context engineering decides what a coding agent has in context: rules in AGENTS.md, procedures in skills, and when an MCP tool beats a shell command.