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context-fundamentals
This skill should be used when the user asks to "understand context", "explain context windows", "design agent architecture", "debug context issues", "optimize context usage", or discusses context components, attention mechanics, progressive disclosure, or context budgeting. Provides foundational understanding of context engineering for AI agent systems.
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# Context Engineering Fundamentals
Context is the complete state available to a language model at inference time. It includes everything the model can attend to when generating responses: system instructions, tool definitions, retrieved documents, message history, and tool outputs. Understanding context fundamentals is prerequisite to effective context engineering.
## When to Activate
Activate this skill when:
- Designing new agent systems or modifying existing architectures
- Debugging unexpected agent behavior that may relate to context
- Optimizing context usage to reduce token costs or improve performance
- Onboarding new team members to context engineering concepts
- Reviewing context-related design decisions
## Core Concepts