Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus
This post shares the local optima Manus arrived at through our own "SGD". If you're building your own AI agent, we hope these principles help you converge faster.
Context Engineering Guide By DAIR.AI Academy Table of Contents What is Context Engineering? Context Engineering is Action System Prompt Instructions User Input Structured Inputs and Outputs Tool Calling RAG & Memory State & Historical Context Advanced Context Engineering Resources What is Co...
TL;DR
Agents need context to perform tasks. Context engineering is the art and science of filling the context window with just the right information at each step of an agent’s trajectory. In this post, we break down some common strategies — write, select, compress, and isolate — for context engineering