Context engineering
The practice of choosing and managing everything a model sees on each call, not just the wording of the prompt.
Wikipedia (Prompt engineering, 2026) says: "Context engineering is the related area of software engineering that focuses on the management of non-prompt and prompt contexts supplied to the GenAI model, such as system instructions, metadata, API tools and tokens."
Also called
- Context engineer
How it connects
- Context engineering designs Context
- Prompt engineering is a narrower part of Context engineering