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title: "Context Engineering - Air Market"
description: "If you work with an AI agent all day, you know a session that starts off useless or slowly gets worse as you go. This skill fixes how the agent is set up, both when you begin and whenever the answers…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/context-engineering"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Context Engineering

Skill by [Addy Osmani](/@addyosmani)

# Context Engineering

For anyone whose agent starts strong and fades fast

## What this does

If you work with an AI agent all day, you know a session that starts off useless or slowly gets worse as you go. This skill fixes how the agent is set up, both when you begin and whenever the answers start slipping. You would reach for it at the start of a session, when moving between tasks, or when results turn poor. It can also set up the rules files a project needs.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Set up a new session properly
- Recover when agent answers go downhill
- Move cleanly between tasks

## Information

**Context Engineering at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Addy Osmani](/@addyosmani) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 11 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [addyosmani/agent-skills](https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/742dca58ae557bc67afec9ea8e6de59c085f0534/skills/context-engineering) |
| GitHub stars | 114,337 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 72,034, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Context Engineering and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Context Engineering's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 742dca58ae557bc67afec9ea8e6de59c085f0534 |
| Content hash | 5ca06990cd6d0fbdc1ec78bc608383ed6c3176dfec168b6caa13d16e4ef68f40 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/blob/742dca58ae557bc67afec9ea8e6de59c085f0534/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Context Engineering](/security/context-engineering)

## About Context Engineering

This skill optimizes the context an agent works from. Reach for it when you are starting a new session and want the agent set up properly from the first exchange.

Reach for it again when the quality of an agent's output starts to degrade, or when you are switching between tasks. It also covers configuring rules files and other context for a project.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Context Engineering safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Context Engineering and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 742dca58ae55, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/context-engineering.

### How do I install Context Engineering?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/context-engineering on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/742dca58ae557bc67afec9ea8e6de59c085f0534/skills/context-engineering. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Addy Osmani](/@addyosmani)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/context-engineering>