Enterprise AI Glossary · Reviewed June 2026
Context Engineering
Designing and managing the information an AI model receives so it produces the right output.
What is Context Engineering?
Context engineering is the discipline of controlling what goes into a model's context window: system instructions, retrieved passages, tool outputs, conversation history, and memory. It is more systematic than prompt engineering and critical for agent systems where context is assembled programmatically. See Context Engineering.
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