Module 3 · LLMs, Prompt Engineering & Context Engineering

Context Engineering: lessons

What goes into the context window, where it comes from and in what order — the core skill of building LLM applications.

4 lessons · 1h 4m

What this module teaches, what it asks of you first and how you practise it are on its syllabus page.

What Goes in the Context
14 min
Instructions, data, examples, history and tools — assembling context as a design.
Included with the track
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
22 min
Chunking, embedding, search and reranking — and how to tell whether retrieval works.
Included with the track Simulation inside
Long-Context Pitfalls
14 min
Lost in the middle, distraction, and when summarising beats including everything.
Included with the track Simulation inside
Memory and Conversation State
14 min
Trimmed history, running summaries, and long-term memory you can audit.
Included with the track

What Goes in the Context