Context engineering for AI agents focuses on designing, organizing, retrieving, and managing the information agents need to perform tasks effectively. This course explores how context differs from prompts and how carefully structured information can improve agent responses, workflows, memory, retrieval, and task execution.
Learners explore context windows, information selection, instructions, constraints, tools, resources, retrieval systems, semantic search, RAG, short-term and long-term memory, dynamic context pipelines, agent state, and multi-step workflows. Advanced topics include context compression, summarization, hierarchical organization, information prioritization, and long-conversation management.
Security and evaluation are integrated throughout the course, covering sensitive context, context leakage, prompt injection, retrieval testing, context quality, and monitoring. Through structured projects, learners build context-aware agents, memory systems, RAG agents, and dynamic context pipelines while optimizing performance for production environments.