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Context Engineering & Prompt Injection

Learn what belongs in the model window, what should be fetched, and what should be compressed away.

the point

Context is the working memory of an AI system. Good context design is often the difference between a demo and a useful product.

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understanding check

You should be able to…

  • decide what should be in prompt, retrieval, tool result, or memory
  • identify context that is stale, redundant, or distracting
  • identify a prompt-injection boundary and its mitigations
  • explain how context rot changes system design

prove it by building

Build an AI research assistant

intermediate · typescript, model API, search or local documents, markdown output

make

an assistant that gathers sources, compresses notes, and writes a sourced brief

definition of done

show the final brief, source list, and what context was kept or discarded