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Instruction boundaries, context construction, examples, trust, and token-budget decisions.
Practice items tagged with Prompt & Context Design.
Explains instruction authority while keeping provider-specific message roles separate from the application’s durable trust boundary.
Transforms conversational requests into bounded search inputs while preserving user intent, constraints, and traceability.
Selects relevant, trustworthy, and budgeted context instead of treating the context window as storage.
Combines bounded instructions, source context, a narrow schema, abstention, semantic validation, review, observability, and rollout.
Builds a readable request with stable instructions and clearly delimited, provenance-aware untrusted inputs.
Describes the context window as the bounded request state containing instructions, conversation, retrieved evidence, tool results, and output capacity.