The article emphasizes the importance of optimizing AI coding agent context to improve efficiency and performance. The author shares four key techniques: maintaining an updated AGENTS.md file, providing documentation links, sharing IaC stack context, and starting new threads for new tasks.
**Bullet Points:**
- **Always update AGENTS.md**: Store coding rules and preferences across threads to improve consistency and reduce errors.
- **Provide documentation links**: Ensure agents use up-to-date API and syntax information by linking to current docs.
- **Provide IaC stack as context**: Share infrastructure details (e.g., database tables) to reduce token usage and improve speed.
- **Start new threads for new contexts**: Avoid context noise by initiating fresh threads when switching tasks or projects.
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