Module III — Context Engineering for Agents

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Context stops being a prompt and becomes a system resource.

Topics

• context budgets
• retrieval
• compaction
• structured summaries
• context contamination
• context inheritance
• agent-to-agent handoffs
• state vs context
• working memory vs durable state

Unique process — Context Fidelity Test

Measure how much information survives:

Agent A
   ↓  handoff
Agent B
   ↓
Agent C