Context Engineering

Context Engineering is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by kdlbs in kandev.

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Install Context Engineering

Copy Context Engineering into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/kdlbs/kandev/tree/main/.agents/skills/context-engineering ~/.claude/skills/context-engineering

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/kdlbs/kandev.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md in kdlbs/kandev
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/context-engineering
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Context Engineering does

Context Engineering curates the right project files, specs, and evidence before coding or debugging. Use it when starting a session, switching code areas, or reconciling external instructions with repository conventions.

Context Engineering is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Context Engineering comes from a repository tagged acp, agent-orchestration, agentic-ai, agentic-development-environment and ai-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Context Engineering

Feed the agent the right information at the right time. Too little context causes invented APIs; too much context hides the relevant pattern.

Context Order

Rules: root AGENTS.md, scoped AGENTS.md, and any invoked skills.
Spec/plan/ADR: relevant docs/specs/<slug>/spec.md, docs/plans/<slug>/plan.md, needed docs/plans/<slug>/task-*.md, and docs/decisions/.
Source: exact files to modify, related tests, and one similar implementation.
Evidence: focused error output, failing test name, CI summary, screenshots, or logs.
Conversation: current user request and any confirmed decisions.

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This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Context Engineering provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/mobile-parity
/e2e
/verify

Frequently asked about Context Engineering

What else does kdlbs publish alongside Context Engineering?
Context Engineering is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kdlbs/kandev, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ACP Debug, Add Integration and Clean Branches. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Context Engineering does, and is maintained by kdlbs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kdlbs/kandev page.
How does Context Engineering compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Context Engineering ranks #1797 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Context Engineering against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.