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Context Engineering for Regulated Workflows: Four New Patterns
The discipline is curating the tokens an agent sees on each turn. Four patterns for doing it in regulated workflows.
"Prompt engineering" was always a misnomer—the real discipline is context engineering : deciding, turn by turn, which tokens an agent gets to see and which it does not.
Published November 15, 2025. Reading time: 11 min read. Author: Morgan Wilson.