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Context Engineering for Agents
Patterns for managing agent context.
Drew Breunig nicely outlined a number of specific ways that longer context can cause perform problems, including: These concepts made their way into popular products like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Windsurf, which all have mechanisms to auto-generate long-term memories based on user-agent interactions. Patterns for agent context engineering are still evolving, but we can group common approaches into 4 buckets — write, select, compress, and isolate —:
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