Context Engineering Fundamentals

The foundation skill in Muratcan Koylan's Agent Skills for Context Engineering collection.

It explains the core mental models: what counts as context (system prompt, tools, retrieved docs, history, tool output), the U-shaped attention curve, and why a small high-signal context usually beats a big one. It is meant for onboarding and background reasoning, and it routes hands-on work to the collection's more specific skills for degradation, optimization, and compression.