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Context Engineering for Production AI Agents in 2026: Beyond Prompt Engineering and Basic RAG

by Jasmin Shukla (Jess)

Learn context engineering for production AI agents in 2026: six context layers, typed packages, MCP tool scoping, retrieval budgeting, prompt-injection defenses, evaluation, and FastAPI architecture patterns.

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