Context engineering, popularized in 2024 as the broader sibling of Prompt Engineering, is the discipline of deliberately designing everything that lands in the model's Context Window — system prompt, conversation history, retrieved documents, tool schemas, memory summaries. Anthropic and the RAG community helped surface the term; in agent systems especially, "which information goes where, in what order, in what format?" has become the dominant quality lever. In practice it gathers techniques like Chunking, Reranking, Prompt Caching, and memory summarization under a single engineering umbrella.
MEVZU N°124ISTANBULYEAR I — VOL. III
Glossary · Intermediate · 2024
Context Engineering
The discipline of systematically designing what is placed in an LLM's context and how.
- EN — English term
- Context Engineering
- TR — Turkish term
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