Context Engineering for Agents

22 minutesAdvancedBuilderLangChainPrompt Engineering

LangChain. Lance Martin's framework — write, select, compress, isolate — with concrete examples of when to summarise an action history, when to offload state to files, and when to spin up sub-agents purely to protect the parent's context. Maps almost directly onto the article's section on managing 1M-token windows in practice.

AI Expert note

Model names, pricing and capabilities change quickly. Use this for the decision pattern, then verify current model behavior before adopting it.

What you should get from this

Apply write, select, compress and isolate patterns to manage agent context deliberately.

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Experience building or operating agents with long-running context.

Last reviewed: May 18, 2026

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