Context engineering

Technique · Agents · 2 items since Jun 2026

Deciding what information goes into a model's context, and when, to steer its behavior.

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  1. Jul 3

    Agents often fail to stop when they should

    Across 28,000+ tasks and 13 agent systems, larger models often abstain less promptly; the CONVOLVE context-engineering method lifts Llama-3.3-70B's timely-abstention recall from 26.7 to 57.4 without weight updates.

  2. Jun 15

    Zhejiang University's TokenPilot

    A dual-granularity context manager that stabilizes prompt prefixes and evicts stale context only when its task relevance expires, cutting long-horizon agent inference costs by 56-87% without breaking the prompt cache.