From the course: Context Engineering for Developers

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Context quarantine

Context quarantine

- [Instructor] In context engineering, not all information should mix freely. For example, we want to keep medicines away from the food, right? We need to have these separate, different contexts for our AI system, and that is where the context quarantine comes into the play. Now, let's understand what it is. Context quarantine is a method where you intentionally create separate protected space for different types of information within your AI system. It's about putting the walls between different kinds of context to stop them from accidentally mixing and causing problems like contamination or security breaches. For example, you can imagine a big office building. Now, instead of one huge open room, you have different offices for finance, HR, legal, or marketing, so that only authorized people can enter into a specific room or get an access to specific documents. But the question comes is, why quarantine? Quarantine is super important because of some certain reasons, the privacy and the…

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