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---
title: Context Engineering
hide_title: true
description: Provide goose with the knowledge, preferences, and workflows it needs to work effectively
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<h1 className={styles.pageTitle}>Context Engineering</h1>
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Context engineering is about building background knowledge, preferences, and workflows that help goose work more effectively. Instead of repeating instructions, you define them once and teach goose how you work.
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<h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>📚 Documentation & Guides</h2>
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title="Using goosehints"
description="Use AGENTS.md, .goosehints, and other files to provide project context, preferences, and instructions that goose loads automatically."
link="/docs/guides/context-engineering/using-goosehints"
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<Card
title="Using Skills"
description="Create reusable instruction sets containing workflows, scripts, and other resources that goose can load on demand."
link="/docs/guides/context-engineering/using-skills"
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<Card
title="Custom Slash Commands"
description="Create custom shortcuts to quickly run reusable instructions in any chat session with simple slash commands."
link="/docs/guides/context-engineering/slash-commands"
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<Card
title="Memory Extension"
description="Teach goose persistent knowledge it can recall across sessions. Save commands, code snippets, and preferences for consistent assistance."
link="/docs/mcp/memory-mcp"
/>
<Card
title="Research → Plan → Implement Pattern"
description="See how slash commands make it easy to integrate instructions into interactive RPI workflows."
link="/docs/tutorials/rpi"
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<h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>📝 Featured Blog Posts</h2>
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<Card
title="What's in my .goosehints file"
description="A deep dive into .goosehints vs Memory Extension, and how to optimize your goose configuration for better performance."
link="/blog/2025/06/05/whats-in-my-goosehints-file"
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<Card
title="Stop Your AI Agent From Making Unwanted Changes"
description="Teach your AI agent how to commit early and often so you can control changes and roll back safely."
link="/blog/2025/12/10/stop-ai-agent-unwanted-changes"
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<Card
title="The AI Skeptic's Guide to Context Windows"
description="Why do AI agents forget? Learn how context windows, tokens, and goose help you manage memory and long conversations."
link="/blog/2025/08/18/understanding-context-windows"
/>
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