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Context Engineering for Agents | Lance Martin, LangChain

Latent Space (Lance Martin) · latent.space

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The question it answers

  1. How do I give my agent the right context and memory so it stops forgetting?

Read with it

  1. The canonical guide: curation beats clever prompting for agents. anthropic.com Guide Effective context engineering for AI agents Anthropic
  2. Battle scars from a real production agent, including the KV-cache economics. manus.im Article Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus Yichao 'Peak' Ji (Manus)
  3. The write, select, compress, isolate framework every team now uses. langchain.com Article Context Engineering for Agents LangChain
  4. The post that coined the framing, with the LLM-as-CPU analogy. rlancemartin.github.io Article Context Engineering for Agents (original essay) Lance Martin
  5. An expert's teardown of how Manus applies the theory in production. rlancemartin.github.io Article Context Engineering in Manus Lance Martin
  6. Same episode, playable on your commute. open.spotify.com Podcast Context Engineering for Agents (audio) Latent Space
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