Hands-On Context Engineering for AI

Hands-On Context Engineering for AI: Stop Breaking Your WindowHave you ever stared at a 2 a.m. debugging screen, watching your AI agent ramble for 4,000 tokens about something you never asked?
Have you felt that sinking feeling when your cloud bill doubles overnight because your "smart" agent decided to dump an entire novel into the context window?
Do you secretly wonder if everyone else has figured out token budgets except you?
You are not alone. And you are not bad at your job.
Picture this: You deploy an agent that actually stays on topic. It remembers what matters, forgets what doesn't, and never - ever - throws a "context length exceeded" error. Your token bill shrinks. Your users stop complaining. You sleep through the night.
This book is your field manual. Written by an engineer who has bled tokens in production, Hands-On Context Engineering for AI rips away the mystery and gives you battle-tested patterns for feeding data to agents without losing your mind or your budget.
Inside you will discover:
· How to measure true context usage - because dashboards lie.
· The 80/20 rule of tokens: keep the twenty percent that matters, drop the rest.
· Why "just increase the limit" is a trap (and what to do instead).
· Real code for sliding windows, semantic compression, and cross-session memory.
· FAQs that answer the questions you were too embarrassed to ask.
· Common pitfalls that silently break agents - and exactly how to avoid them.
Every chapter is packed with relatable examples, necessary code snippets (no fluff), and a professional finish that respects your time. You will learn to build agents that resize themselves, handle images and audio without exploding, and recover from malformed tool calls in milliseconds.
Your team will thank you. Your finance department will thank you. And that 2 a.m. debugging session? You will be asleep.
Get the book now. Stop breaking your window. Start engineering context like a pro.