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Agentic Context Engineering: Comprehensive Reference Specification

The unified specification synthesizing research from Google ADK, Anthropic, Manus, and Stanford into a single framework - why agents fail from memory architecture problems not model stupidity, and the four-layer architecture that fixes it

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Comprehensive reference specification for Agentic Context Engineering synthesizing research from Google ADK, Anthropic, Manus, and Stanford/SambaNova - covering the compiler thesis (context as computed view over richer state), the four-layer memory architecture (Working Context, Sessions, Memory, Artifacts), domain memory patterns, nine scaling principles, nine failure modes, the ACE self-improvement framework, multi-agent orchestration patterns, tool design principles, and the platform guardrails that prevent common architectural failures.