context-engineering-advisor SKILL.md skillA
context-engineering-advisor from deanpeters/product-manager-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/context-engineering-advisor@git:20260704.6a4fbf2Pins git:20260704.6a4fbf2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deanpeters/product-manager-skills
- Path
skills/context-engineering-advisor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260704.6a4fbf2, committed Jul 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 10, 2026
- Size
- 32,560 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Diagnose context stuffing vs. context engineering. Use when an AI workflow feels bloated, brittle, or hard to steer reliably.
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
## Purpose
Guide product managers through diagnosing whether they're doing **context stuffing** (jamming volume without intent) or **context engineering** (shaping structure for attention). Use this to identify context boundaries, fix "Context Hoarding Disorder," and implement tactical practices like bounded domains, episodic retrieval, and the Research→Plan→Reset→Implement cycle.
**Key Distinction:** Context stuffing assumes volume = quality ("paste the entire PRD"). Context engineering treats AI attention as a scarce resource and allocates it deliberately.
This is not about prompt writing—it's about **designing the information architecture** that grounds AI in reality without overwhelming it with noise.
## Input
**Works best with:** A description of the AI workflow, agent, or prompt setup that feels bloated, brittle, or hard to steer.
**Also useful:** What you've already stuffed into context (docs, transcripts, schemas) and where outputs go wrong.
Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/context-engineering-advisor@sha256:d2e192e3d19d9033The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260704.6a4fbf2, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wl24eycifwm74krd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 10, 2026 and Jul 4, 2026, about one every 36 days.
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| git:20260704.6a4fbf2 latest | 2026-07-04 | 6a4fbf2 | 32,560 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260309.0a8f6ac | 2026-03-09 | 0a8f6ac | 31,771 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260227.26a442b | 2026-02-27 | 26a442b | 31,438 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260211.cc730da | 2026-02-11 | cc730da | 30,959 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260210.c95ff78 | 2026-02-10 | c95ff78 | 30,856 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (32560 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
deanpeters/product-manager-skills · 7,599 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wl24eycifwm74krd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/context-engineering-advisor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d2e192e3d19d90332a6ae433cd1ff6feeaf8d77dfd88e8edbf971641106c4673
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.