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instruction budget
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Context engineering
Every context artifact (system prompt, project memory file, tool/MCP schema) draws from one shared, finite instruction-following capacity, so context engineering becomes budget allocation.
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Everything We Got Wrong About Research-Plan-Implement - Dexter Horthycontrol flow over prompt instructions
Moving sequencing and branching into deterministic code is the primary mechanism for freeing instruction budget for the task itself.
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Everything We Got Wrong About Research-Plan-Implement - Dexter Horthy