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Effective context engineering for AI agents
By
Anthropic
Kind
article
Year
2026
Agent context
Markdown

Anthropic argues that agent work has moved beyond writing prompts into managing the whole context state: instructions, tools, MCP, external data, history, and the cyclic refinement of what enters the context window.

Anthropic argues that agent work has moved beyond writing prompts into managing the whole context state: instructions, tools, MCP, external data, history, and the cyclic refinement of what enters the context window