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context-fundamentals from docxology/template is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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This skill should be used to explain or reason about the foundational concepts of context engineering: what context is, the anatomy of a context window, how attention mechanics work, the U-shaped attention curve, why context quality matters more than quantity, and the mental models needed to interpret every other context-engineering decision. Use this for conceptual explanation, onboarding, and background reading. Route operational work to the specialized skills: debugging attention failures…
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What the file says
# Context Engineering Fundamentals Context is the complete state available to a language model at inference time: system instructions, tool definitions, retrieved documents, message history, and tool outputs. Context engineering is the discipline of curating the smallest high-signal token set that maximizes the likelihood of desired outcomes. This skill is the conceptual foundation that every other skill in the collection builds on. It explains what context is, how attention mechanics work, why context quality matters more than quantity, and the mental models needed to interpret every other context-engineering decision. It does not own operational work: debugging attention failures belongs to `context-degradation`, token-efficiency tactics belong to `context-optimization`, conversation summarization belongs to `context-compression`, file-based offloading belongs to `filesystem-context`, and project-shape decisions belong to `project-development`. ## When to Activate Activate this skill when the work is conceptual: - Explaining what context is and how attention mechanics constrain agent behavior. …
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Source
docxology/template · 20 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
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