context-engineering-fundamentals SKILL.md skillA
context-engineering-fundamentals from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/context-engineering-fundamentals@git:20260818.3e0e3a8Pins git:20260818.3e0e3a8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
- Path
dev-toolkit/skills/context-engineering-fundamentals/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260818.3e0e3a8, committed Aug 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 15, 2026
- Size
- 4,159 bytes
- Repository stars
- 443
- License
- MIT
Manages attention and evidence in long agent sessions. Use for lost instructions, dropped evidence, or large multi-agent contexts.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Context engineering fundamentals Context engineering is the practice of managing an LLM's limited attention budget. Use this skill to keep instructions, evidence, and state available during long work. ## Core concept **Context windows are constrained by attention mechanics, not only token capacity.** A large context limit does not guarantee equal use of every item. ## The lost-in-middle effect The "Lost in the Middle" experiments show that retrieval quality can change with information position. The result depends on the model, task, context length, and number of documents. | Position | Common test result | |----------|--------------------| | Beginning | Often easier to retrieve | | Middle | Can be harder to retrieve | | End | Often benefits from recency | **Implication:** Keep critical constraints easy to find and repeat them near the decision that uses them. Do not assume position alone predicts recall. ## Context degradation patterns ### 1. Lost-in-middle Information in the middle of long context gets lower attention weight. **Mitigation:** Structure with explicit sections. Put critical constraints at start AND end. ### 2. Context poisoning …
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How to install
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/context-engineering-fundamentals@sha256:a4068d296afcf402The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260818.3e0e3a8, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 15, 2026 and Aug 18, 2026, about one every 3 days.
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| git:20260818.3e0e3a8 latest | 2026-08-18 | 3e0e3a8 | 4,159 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.b0d4295 | 2026-08-15 | b0d4295 | 4,185 B | A | view |
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Source
jamditis/claude-skills-journalism · 443 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3kp2tiosckjutwlo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/context-engineering-fundamentals GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a4068d296afcf402304c9dbc55dfb55e33d0087ee03100b6da8c4aa05dd85016
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