GUIDE

The Context Engineering Guide

Go beyond prompting. Become the architect who builds the world your model lives in. This is your guide to engineering reliable, context-aware AI systems.

About the guide

A powerful Large Language Model is not enough. The smartest models still hallucinate, lack real-world knowledge, and can't remember your last conversation. The solution isn't a better prompt. It's a better system.

This e-book is your guide to mastering Context Engineering: the act of selecting, organizing, and managing the information fed into a large language model during inference (i.e. the “context” tokens) to optimize its performance and behavior. You'll learn the architectural patterns required to move beyond simple demos and build reliable, production-ready AI applications that think with real-world context, not just their training data.


    The Context Engineering Guide covers:

  • How to architect an Agent to act as the system's decision-making brain.
  • How to apply Query Augmentation to translate messy user requests into precise, actionable intent.
  • The principles of effective Retrieval to connect your model to the right external information at the right time.
  • How to design a Memory architecture that gives your system a sense of history and the power to learn.
  • The strategies for integrating Tools to give your application hands to interact with live data and APIs.