Trendingby GlyphContext engineering
Plateau · emerged January 2024 · high May 2026 · +34% on the month before · 20 mentions on Trending in 14 days
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
Hacker News stories, last 12 months170 stories, +67% on the 12 months before
arXiv papers, last 12 months329 papers, +210% on the 12 months before
Against its high-22% from the high of May 2026
Product releases naming it64 since Feb 19, 2026GitHub repositories2,389Funding rounds naming it1, $12M in all| Signal | Reads as | |
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| Hacker News stories, last 12 months170 stories, +67% on the 12 months before | 170 stories, +67% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months329 papers, +210% on the 12 months before | 329 papers, +210% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| Against its high-22% from the high of May 2026 | -22% from the high of May 2026 | Decline |
| Product releases naming it64 since Feb 19, 2026 | 64 since Feb 19, 2026 | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories2,389 | 2,389 | Adoption |
| Funding rounds naming it1, $12M in all | 1, $12M in all | Adoption |
Companies
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Releases
64 releases since Feb 19, 2026| Name | |
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GitHub projects
2,389 repositoriesdair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide🐙 Guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, and AI Agents.gsd-build/get-shit-doneA light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code by TÂCHES.muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-EngineeringA comprehensive collection of Agent Skills for context engineering, multi-agent architectures, and production agent systems. Use when buildicoleam00/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 thjasontang-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." — Andgsd-build/gsd-2A powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system that enables agents to work for long periods of time auton
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| 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 ago | Dec 16, 20223 years ago | 78,599 |
| 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 11 months ago | Dec 14, 202511 months ago | 64,462 |
| 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 10 months ago | Dec 21, 202510 months ago | 18,027 |
| 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 ago | Jul 2, 20251 year ago | 13,878 |
| 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 ago | Jun 29, 20251 year ago | 9,253 |
| 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 8 months ago | Mar 11, 20268 months ago | 7,779 |
Funding
1 round| Name | Amount | |
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| Sep 16, 20242 years ago | $12M |
Related movements
Prompt engineeringWriting and testing the instructions given to a model to get reliable answers.RAGRetrieval-augmented generation: a model answers from documents fetched for the question instead of from memory alone.Agentic codingCoding agents that read a repository, run commands and tests, and change code across files on their own.MCPModel Context Protocol: an open standard for connecting models and agents to tools and data sources.
| Movement | Stage |
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| 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
Tracking started: emerged January 2024, plateau, 3 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
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| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged January 2024, plateau, 3 other names recorded |
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.