# 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

Source: https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/context-engineering (version 1.0, changed 2026-10-21)