The October 6, 2025 paper introduces **Agentic Context Engineering (ACE)**, a novel framework designed to enhance the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex applications like agents and domain-specific reasoning by evolving their context, or "playbook." ACE addresses two key limitations of prior context adaptation methods: **brevity bias** (the loss of detailed domain knowledge for conciseness) and **context collapse** (where iterative rewriting erodes information). Through a modular process of generation, reflection, and curation, ACE builds contexts that are **structured, incremental, and comprehensive**, leading to superior performance on benchmarks like AppWorld and financial analysis tasks. Critically, the framework achieves significant improvements, such as **a 10.6% gain on agents**, while also reducing adaptation latency and cost compared to strong baselines by using localized, delta updates instead of monolithic rewrites.

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https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04618