Context Engineering

When to Use

• Delegating a complex task to an AI agent
• An agent keeps repeating the wrong approach
• Agent quality drops as the context grows longer
• Designing a pipeline where multiple agents collaborate

Difference from context-prime (Copilot-specific):

• context-prime: loads live project context at session start
• context-engineering: structures the best possible information for a specific task

Prerequisites

• The delegated task has a clear goal and scope
• You know the relevant files or domain area