Tag: context-engineering
All the articles with the tag "context-engineering".
Many Agents: Subagents, Communication and Orchestration
Updated:Splitting a task across agents buys clean contexts and parallelism, and costs coordination and lost information. Why subagents exist; roles; communication topologies; the A2A protocol; the standard orchestration patterns; a token-cost model, on real document sizes, of one agent against a lead with six workers (a context a quarter to two-fifths the size and far fewer sequential steps whatever the assumptions, a token bill that can go either way, and only 8% of the source reaching the lead); and the published evidence on when multi-agent systems win and when they lose.
Giving Agents Tools and Knowledge: MCP, Skills and OKF
Updated:Three answers to one question, how an agent gets capabilities without bloating its context: the Model Context Protocol for live tools and data, Skills for procedures loaded on demand, and the Open Knowledge Format for curated knowledge. A working MCP server for this blog, called through the SDK and as raw JSON-RPC under the stateless 2026-07-28 protocol; progressive disclosure's token arithmetic; an OKF bundle generated from the posts; and the security model all three share.