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 "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/context-engineering",
 "slug": "context-engineering",
 "prefLabel": "Context engineering",
 "altLabel": [
  "Context engineer"
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 "hiddenLabel": [],
 "definition": "The practice of choosing and managing everything a model sees on each call, not just the wording of the prompt.",
 "scopeNote": "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.\"",
 "tier": "explain",
 "group": "Instructions",
 "broader": [],
 "narrower": [],
 "related": [],
 "links": [
  {
   "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/context",
   "label": "designs",
   "direction": "out"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/prompt-engineering",
   "label": "is a narrower part of",
   "direction": "in"
  }
 ],
 "modified": "2026-10-21",
 "markdown": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/context-engineering.md",
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