Chapter 11. Context engineering for software development

This chapter shows how context engineering supports the software development lifecycle (SDLC) through reusable skills, instruction artifacts, external documentation retrieval, orchestration layers, and specialized agents.

Examples

• Agent skills: agent-skills
• Instructions artifact: karpathy-instructions-cursor
• Documentation retrieval: Context7
• SDLC prompt library: Web page
• Specification-driven development: Spec Kit
• Orchestration: Superpowers
• Orchestration: Open GSD
• Orchestration: BMAD