Prompt & Context Engineering
Context Engineering
The window is the program. Fill it deliberately.
You can jump straight in, but this star assumes Prompt Engineering. Not recommended as a first stop.
Four layers of depth
Each layer ends with a quiz. Finish layer 4 and you own this concept.
- L1IntuitionWhat context engineering is, why 'just put it in the prompt' breaks down at scale, and the buzzwords decoded.5m
40 XP - L2MechanicsThe mechanics: retrieval and ranking, context budgets, ordering strategies, and compression/memory.8m
70 XP - L3CodeImplement a token-budgeted context assembler: chunking, retrieval, and fitting content to a hard limit.12m
110 XP - L4FoundationsThe formal layer: attention cost and context length, retrieval math, and the statistics of retrieval quality.15m
180 XP
Where this leads
33 stars in the atlas.