What Does This Mean?
The practice and discipline of structuring and curating exactly what information an AI model receives so it produces a useful response — the broader field-level term, distinct from 'Context Engineer,' which names the specific role or person doing this work.
EXPLAINER
IBM Technology · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Good context engineering fixed it, the model wasn't dumb, it just wasn't getting the right documents before."
LORE & ORIGIN
Emerged as prompt engineering matured into a wider practice covering not just the prompt itself but memory, retrieved documents, and tool outputs, needing a broader name for the discipline as a whole rather than just the job title.
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