SkillCheatSheet
context-engineering
An AI agent skill from mvschwarz/openrig, scored 67 out of 100 by code.
Code score by group
It loses the most points in Done criteria (11), the group that checks whether there is a checklist and a step that verifies the work.
What the author says it does
Use when designing, reviewing, or debugging how an agent's context window gets filled, pruned, or shared — choosing what loads at boot versus on demand, sizing an install or an always-loaded file, fixing an agent that drifts, repeats itself, or forgets constraints mid-task, planning compaction or summarization, deciding single-agent versus subagents, engineering handoffs between agents, or picking a tool loadout. NOT for rewording a prompt's tone, choosing which model to pin, or debugging business logic — those are adjacent moments this skill does not serve. Historical 2024–2025 snapshot; not…
This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.
- Repository
- mvschwarz/openrig
- Folder
- skills/_canonical/process/context-engineering
- License
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 8,830
- SKILL.md lines
- 480
- Other files
- 0
Add context-engineering to your agent
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill context-engineeringThe command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.
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