Phase 2: Context Engineering for Builders · 50 min · Claude Code · MCP · Python
Building a Context Architecture for Your Product
A context architecture is where the last four lessons stop being separate ideas and become one design you can point at your own product.
Real-world application: A documented context architecture is one of this course's three highest-leverage portfolio artifacts — it's concrete evidence you can design, not just describe, the context layer of a real AI-native product.
What you will learn
- Design a complete context architecture spanning rules, skills, MCP connections, and a selection strategy for a real product
- Apply the rules-vs-skill test and the four failure modes as review criteria, not just recall
- Identify when live, frequently-changing data has been incorrectly hardcoded into static rules content instead of an MCP connection
- Produce a context architecture document as a real, reviewable portfolio artifact for your course-long product
Introduction
Building a Context Architecture for Your Product
Objective
Combine this phase's four checks (budget, rules-vs-skill, staleness/MCP, isolation) into one architecture health report, and run it against both a flawed and a corrected design.
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