Definition
Context Engineering is the engineering discipline responsible for intentionally designing, structuring, maintaining, and governing the context provided to humans and AI systems. It requires context to be explicit, structured, traceable, reusable, maintainable, and governed, rather than relying on implicit human knowledge.
Why It Matters
Context that isn't deliberately curated tends to become tribal, fragmented, or forgotten. Context Engineering turns engineering knowledge into organizational capital: searchable, reusable, reviewable, and improvable, rather than something each new initiative has to rediscover from scratch.
Related Concepts
- Context
- Shared Context
- Organizational Knowledge
- Specification
References
- STD-0003 — Context Engineering
- DISC-0005 — Context Engineering
- GUIDE-0005 — Context Engineering