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Context engineering

Plateau · emerged January 2024 · high May 2026 · -5% on the month before · 3 mentions on Trending in 14 days

Origin

Deciding what goes into a model's context window, and in what order: instructions, retrieved documents, tools and memory. Named by Andrej Karpathy: Karpathy: "+1 for context engineering over prompt engineering" (Jun 25, 2025). Also called Context window management, Agent memory, Context rot.

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Signals

SignalReads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months185 stories, +147% on the 12 months beforeAdoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months287 papers, +219% on the 12 months beforeAdoption
Against its high-29% from the high of May 2026Decline
Product releases naming it36 since Sep 1, 2025Adoption
GitHub repositories2,389Adoption

Companies

NameMentions
Vercel15
Cloudflare8
Anthropic3
Databricks3
Snowflake1
Oracle1
Hugging Face1
Google Cloud1

Releases

36 releases since Sep 1, 2025
Name
Claude Opus 5.5 launches with a 1M token context window and 128k outputAnthropic · Sep 22, 2026 3 days ago
Grok 4.7 now available and 40% off on AI Gateway, fx, and eveVercel · Sep 21, 2026 4 days ago
Cortex Agents Compact API (Preview)Snowflake · Sep 21, 2026 4 days ago
Use xAI Grok 4.6 in OCI Generative AIOracle · Sep 10, 2026 2 weeks ago
Transformers Release 5.17.0Hugging Face · Sep 10, 2026 2 weeks ago
Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI GatewayVercel · Sep 2, 2026 3 weeks ago
Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI GatewayVercel · Sep 2, 2026 3 weeks ago
AI Search - AI Search now supports GLM-5.3 FlashCloudflare · Aug 30, 2026 3 weeks ago

GitHub projects

2,389 repositories
NameStars
dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide🐙 Guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, and AI Agents. · Dec 16, 2022 3 years ago78,599
gsd-build/get-shit-doneA light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code by TÂCHES. · Dec 14, 2025 9 months ago64,462
muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-EngineeringA comprehensive collection of Agent Skills for context engineering, multi-agent architectures, and production agent systems. Use when buildi · Dec 21, 2025 9 months ago18,027
coleam00/context-engineering-introContext engineering is the new vibe coding - it's the way to actually make AI coding assistants work. Claude Code is the best for this so th · Jul 2, 2025 1 year ago13,878
jasontang-ai/Context-Engineering"Context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window with just the right information for the next step." — And · Jun 29, 2025 1 year ago9,253
gsd-build/gsd-2A powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system that enables agents to work for long periods of time auton · Mar 11, 2026 6 months ago7,779

Related movements

MovementStage
Prompt engineeringWriting and testing the instructions given to a model to get reliable answers.Declining
RAGRetrieval-augmented generation: a model answers from documents fetched for the question instead of from memory alone.Plateau
Agentic codingCoding agents that read a repository, run commands and tests, and change code across files on their own.Rising
MCPModel Context Protocol: an open standard for connecting models and agents to tools and data sources.Peak

History

DateWhat changed
Sep 24, 2026Tracking started: emerged January 2024, plateau, 3 other names recorded

Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Sep 24, 2026. Related entities from the fru.dev sites' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.

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