context engineering

Every Qurtoo article on context engineering, newest first.

Techniques
Context Engineering Is the New Prompt Engineering: How to Load Your LLM's RAM Like an Operating System
Karpathy was right: the highest-leverage skill in 2026 isn't writing better prompts, it's deciding what goes into the context window and what stays out
Brian GagneMay 18, 2026
Agentic
Sub-Agent Delegation Prompts for Claude 4.7's 1M Context: When to Spawn and When to Stay
Stop burning your million-token window on grep output. Prompt patterns that decide what gets delegated.
Brian GagneApril 21, 2026
Agentic
Context Engineering for Agents: Manage What Your LLM Sees Across 50 Turns Without Losing the Thread
The 2026 skill that replaced prompt engineering as the bottleneck for agentic systems
Brian GagneMarch 29, 2026
Agentic
Multi-Agent Handoff Prompts: How to Write Instructions That Transfer Context Between Agents
The system prompt architecture behind reliable agent-to-agent coordination
Brian GagneMarch 28, 2026
Techniques
Context Engineering Beats Prompt Engineering: How to Design Token Budgets That Actually Work
Stop optimizing words. Start optimizing what the model sees
Brian GagneMarch 28, 2026

Context Engineering Is the New Prompt Engineering: How to Load Your LLM's RAM Like an Operating System