Context Window Engineering
The context window is the computer. Learn to use it deliberately.
Everything that goes in the context window costs money and affects quality — and most teams treat it as an afterthought. This course covers the full discipline: budgeting, conversation history management, long document processing, prompt caching, dynamic context assembly, and debugging. With runnable Python.
6h
Duration
8
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Lesson 1
The context window is the computer
9m35 XPLesson 2
Context budgeting and priority scoring
11m40 XPLesson 3
Conversation history management
12m40 XPLesson 4
Long document processing patterns
13m42 XPLesson 5
Prompt caching for long context
11m38 XPLesson 6
Dynamic context assembly
12m40 XPLesson 7
Context debugging and observability
10m35 XPLesson 8
Capstone: a document Q&A system for 500-page PDFs
17m55 XP
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