Curriculum
Module 05
Context engineering
The loop's real constraint is the window. Manage it deliberately.
5 lessons · 13 videos · 3h 11m- 05.01
Context is the budget
Account for every token in a long run and find where it went.
- 05.02
Compaction without losing the thread
Compress a long run so the agent keeps what matters and drops what does not.
- 05.03
Memory that is not a vector database
Choose between a scratchpad, a file, a database and embeddings for agent memory.
- 05.04
Putting retrieval inside the loop
Let the agent fetch what it needs instead of pre-stuffing the prompt.
- 05.05
Context rot
Recognise when more context is making answers worse, and prove it.