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title: "Context engineering"
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# Context engineering

Carrying meaning, behaviour and applicability alongside a component through every phase, and making someone accountable for that chain's fidelity.

## Edges

- <- about <- 50 design token files, one problem: your agents can't read the meaning, A2UI under the hood. Designing for the new era of radically adaptive UI., AI & Design Systems (course), AI Just Turns the Lights On: TJ Pitre on Design Systems and AI, AI Without the Chaos: Context-Based Design Systems to the Rescue, AI in design systems: What's changing in 2026, AI-ready Design System Roadmap, Agentic Design Systems Codebase Navigation, Context > Probability: Design systems as AI infrastructure, Context-Based Design Systems, Revisited, Context-Based Design Systems: A New Model for the AI-Driven Product Lifecycle, Designing the Learning Loop: Context, AI, and Compound Systems, Documentation foundations for humans and AI, Encoding Intent, On progressive disclosure for AI context, Probabilistic isn’t a dirty word…, Specs Stop at the Component. Governance Doesn't., The Bridge the Standard Cannot Build, The Design System Was Fine Until the Agents Moved In, The parts of your system you never wrote down, Towards an agentic design system, Your documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet
- <- focus <- Ben Callahan, Brad Frost, Cassie Groos, Chris Strahl, Christine Vallaure, Cristian Morales Achiardi, Dave Brown, Elyse Holladay, Gantushig Javkhlan, Geri Reid, Ian Frost, Ilya Greben, Jesse Gardner, Karl Koch, Murphy Trueman, Robin Di Capua, Romina Kavcic, Shane P Williams, TJ Pitre, Yesenia Perez-Cruz
- <- ships <- AI & Design Systems, Patterns Podcast

## Sources

- https://southleft.com/insights/design-systems/context-based-design-systems-a-new-model-for-the-ai-driven-product-lifecycle/