context-engineering

Context engineering is the practice of designing and managing agent context to extend autonomous duration. It addresses context constraints, intent layer design, and hierarchical loading to maintain agent focus and effectiveness over extended operational periods.

Structure AGENTS.md files using intent layer design principles for clarity, discoverability, and efficient loading. This ensures agents receive systematic context without overwhelming their processing capabilities or finite context windows.

Agents lose focus due to finite context windows, blind spots, and noise accumulation. Applying context engineering principles like hierarchical loading, compression, and LCA placement systematically mitigates these constraints to extend autonomous duration.

The best way to manage context constraints is applying intent layer design and hierarchical loading. This structures context systematically, ensuring each agent in a multi-agent system receives necessary information without overwhelming its processing capabilities.

You need intent layer design when building complex multi-agent systems requiring extended autonomous duration. It provides principles for structuring context to maintain focus, mitigate blind spots, and optimize finite context window usage.