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The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
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- Claude 5's context window works differently enough that old prompt patterns quietly degrade. The blog names three mechanisms: where you put examples, how you structure long contexts, when to use caching. Worth 20 minutes if you're shipping with it.