Inside Claude Code: Understanding How Context, Tokens, Tools, and Subagents Work
Claude Code assembles layered context from rules, Skills, MCP, files, and tool output, then manages tokens and subagents while running tests.
Claude Code assembles layered context from rules, Skills, MCP, files, and tool output, then manages tokens and subagents while running tests.
Context rot is a gradual LLM decline as prompts grow, driven by transformer attention. Long chats can lose reliability without context engineering.
Six agentic AI architecture patterns and context engineering guide production-ready agents that use tools, manage memory, scale, and control cost.