ALLMAcademy

Module Gate

Gate: Agent Engineering Fundamentals

10 min

Check that you can separate model requests, context budgets, retrieval and state, and orchestration structures.

  1. 01Trace the boundaries around one model call
  2. 02Classify retrieval, state, memory, and durable execution mechanisms
  3. 03Choose the simplest fitting tool and orchestration structure

The fundamental boundaries

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  • A model call sees the context assembled for that request.
  • A context window is a finite input-plus-output token budget.
  • Retrieval selects information; RAG places selected evidence into a request.
  • State, checkpoints, tasks, and memory have different scopes and lifetimes.
  • Tools, loops, graphs, and multiple agents add different kinds of control.

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Question 1 of 5

A chat application shows ten prior turns, but the next request sends only the latest user message. What can the model directly use?