Context Engineering Intro

Cole Medin's Context Engineering Intro turns a feature request into a more complete assignment for Anthropic's Claude Code. The user supplies requirements, relevant code examples, documentation, and known pitfalls. A custom command then researches the codebase and produces an implementation plan with validation steps.

A second command uses that plan to implement and test the feature. The distinction is useful when a request sounds clear but leaves important project conventions unstated: the template makes those conventions part of the work package. Its generation and execution commands belong to this repository; they are custom workflow definitions rather than universal built-in commands.

“Context Engineering is 10x better than prompt engineering and 100x better than vibe coding.”

“A comprehensive template for getting started with Context Engineering - the discipline of engineering context for AI coding assistants so they have the information necessary to get the job done end to end.”

“Most agent failures aren't model failures - they're context failures”