alt.hn

4/17/2026 at 6:20:49 PM

Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

 https://github.com/outcomeops/context-engineering

by linsys

4/20/2026 at 1:26:36 AM

I don’t really think this reflects the current era of challenges?

The “enforcement layer” is the hardest and most important part, and is barely addressed.

- is the answer structurally / syntactically valid?

- is it appropriately grounded and evidenced?

- is it accurate? In what ways does it fall short?

Each of these should be triggering an agent to rework and resubmit etc. or failing that a disclosure to the user about how the answer falls short and should be reviewed / remediated.

This feels like it’s from the era of trying to oneshot a good enough answer.

by rao-v

4/20/2026 at 9:13:44 AM

No numbers/measurements/benchmarks and you dare call it "a working" one? Any real proofs that this 'works'?

by zihotki

4/20/2026 at 2:35:53 AM

enforcement is the hard part. most context engineering stuff describes what should happen, not what actually stops it from happening. curious how your enforcement layer handles runtime checks vs just descriptive ones

by newsdeskx

4/20/2026 at 12:08:35 AM

> the information an AI system needs to produce accurate ... outputs

I would have stuck a qualifier in there

by slashdave

4/20/2026 at 12:18:59 AM

I feel like AI is going to be doing all the fun stuff and I will just left organizing the data and docs it needs to generate code.

by r4ge

4/20/2026 at 12:30:31 AM

Putting engineering after a term doesnt make it engineering.

by tmpz22

4/20/2026 at 1:26:32 AM

Software engineering is certainly not engineering. Even at the highest levels. Real engineering have infinitely more complex interactions in the physical world than symbolic institutions for machines.

by jryio

4/20/2026 at 4:38:47 AM

Thats right, no need to understand anything other than symbols on a machine. No people involved. No reality to model. No economics to think about. Nothing like real engineering. Thats for the big boys and girls

by whattheheckheck

4/20/2026 at 12:43:36 AM

Probably just using the convention started by the term "prompt engineering", which is forgivable.

by slashdave

4/20/2026 at 12:57:22 AM

not sure i forgive "prompt engineering"

by sroussey

4/20/2026 at 2:56:26 AM

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by agent-kay