Context Engineering

Learn the mental model behind minimal-context prompting, summarization, and model tiering for cost control.

Trim a bloated prompt down to relevant snippets and measure the token savings.

Send Claude a dependency graph and relevant snippets instead of an entire codebase.

Pre-summarize long documents with a cheap model before sending them to a costlier one.

See why padding a prompt with unnecessary context degrades quality and raises cost.

A checklist for deciding when a task needs Opus and when Haiku is enough.

A checklist for cutting token spend without sacrificing answer quality.