What is Context?
The files, code, or documents you give the AI to work with. Adding the right context means the AI works from real information instead of guessing.
2 files in · works from real code
Adding context to a prompt gives the AI...
Write it in your own words in the app.
In real work
Add context with @-mentions: @AuthService.ts @auth.spec.ts Write tests for the missing edge cases. Base them on existing test patterns.
In the illustration
The feeder is empty and the reader's needle sits on GUESS; two file cards, AuthService and auth.spec, drop in and as the reader takes them the needle swings to GROUNDED.
Give your coding agent the right context before the task: the three files that touch billing and the test that currently fails. Nothing else.
Try it now
The fastest way to learn a word is to use it. Open this line in the agent you already work in and watch what it does. Change the tool to the one you use.
Go further
01Practice
Make it stick
One term a day, a short quiz, and sentence practice that checks your own words.
02Verify
Prove you know it
Pass the quiz and keep it in a Skills Wallet you can share with anyone who needs proof.
03Career
Find the work that uses it
See which roles lean on this vocabulary, and what they pay in year one.
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