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Master Context Engineering

Stop AI Hallucinations at the Source — the #1 Skill Behind Reliable AI

Your agents don't fail because the model is weak. They fail because you fed them the wrong context. Master the discipline behind every great AI system.

Prompt engineering was the warm-up. Context engineering is the real game: the discipline of selecting, organizing, compressing, and prioritizing exactly what enters the context window—and what stays out. With million-token contexts and autonomous agents, sloppy context means hallucinations, brittle agents, and unpredictable output. In this masterclass you'll engineer the complete context stack from first principles: instruction design and agent skills, retrieval grounding, MCP tool integration, memory and state, and multi-agent context coordination. Each module starts with a TedTalk-style deep dive, then you build the system yourself. By the end, you'll think like a context system designer—knowing exactly what gets retrieved just-in-time, what becomes persistent memory, and why your agents suddenly stopped hallucinating.

FROM
API Consumer
$100K-$150K · Replaceable Skills
TO
Model Builder
$250K-$400K · Irreplaceable
9 weeks · 50 hours · Own your model weights forever
Why It's a Masterclass, Not a Course

AI Hyper-Personalizes Your Experience

This isn't a one-size-fits-all course. It's assessed to your gaps, adapted to you, and finished with a custom deliverable you build and own.

01Before You Start

Pre-Masterclass Assessment

You begin with an AI-driven assessment that maps what you already know against everything this masterclass covers. We pinpoint your knowledge gaps up front—so your time goes only where it moves the needle.

02During

An AI-Personalized Path

Your results reshape the masterclass around you. The AI aligns the material, examples, and pace to close your specific gaps—so a fixed curriculum becomes a path built for exactly one person: you.

03Your Outcome

A Custom Deliverable You Own

You don't leave with a certificate—you leave with a real, working artifact built for your goals. In "Master Context Engineering," that means a deliverable you can ship, show, and build on. Something you made, not just something you watched.

Proven Transformation Results

Real outcomes from students who completed The LLM Sovereignty Stack™ and built their competitive moats

📈 Career Transformation

75%
Promoted to Senior+ within 12 months
$80K-$150K
Average salary increase
90%
Report being 'irreplaceable' at their company
85%
Lead AI initiatives after completion

💰 Business Impact

$150K/year
Average API cost savings from owning model weights
70%
Eliminate third-party model dependencies entirely
60%
Raise funding citing proprietary technology as moat
3-6 months
Average time to ROI on course investment

What You'll Actually Build

🏗️
Complete GPT
4,000+ lines of PyTorch
🧠
Attention
From scratch, no libraries
📊
Training
100M+ tokens
🎯
Classification
95%+ accuracy
💬
ChatBot
Instruction-following

Choose Your Path to Mastery

All modalities include the complete LLM Sovereignty Stack™. Choose based on your learning style and goals.

Self-Paced Mastery

$1,497
Lifetime Access
Self-directed learners
  • All 7 modules available immediately
  • Lifetime access to content and updates
  • Community support and code reviews
  • Monthly live office hours
  • Learn on your own schedule
Most Popular

7-Week Live Cohort

$5,997
12 Weeks
Engineers wanting accountability
  • Weekly live workshops with Dr. Lee
  • Cohort accountability and peer learning
  • Direct instructor access
  • Graduation certificate
  • Alumni network access

Founder's Edition

$17,997
6 Months
Founders & technical leaders
  • One-on-one mentorship with Dr. Lee
  • Context architecture review for YOUR product
  • Custom implementation guidance
  • 90-day satisfaction guarantee

4-Day Immersive Bootcamp

Executive intensive format. Hands-on labs with immediate feedback. Build your context engine in one week.

Course Curriculum

7 transformative steps · 35 hours of hands-on content

1

Module 1: The Context Revolution

5 lessons · Shu-Ha-Ri cycle

  • Why Context Beats Prompts: The Discipline Nobody Named Until Now
  • Anatomy of a Context Window: What the Model Actually Sees
  • The Cost of Bad Context: Hallucinations, Brittle Agents, Unpredictable Output
  • From Prompts to Workflows to Agents: Why Automation Is Non-Negotiable
  • The Context Engineering Stack: Your Roadmap for This Masterclass
2

Module 2: Instruction Architecture & Agent Skills

5 lessons · Shu-Ha-Ri cycle

  • System Prompts as Code: Designing Instructions with Engineering Rigor
  • Agent Skills: Packaging Expertise the Model Can Load On Demand
  • Instruction Artifacts: Versioning, Testing, and Reusing Your Instructions
  • Instruction Hierarchies: What Wins When Instructions Conflict
  • Hands-On: Build a Skill-Driven Instruction Layer for Your Agent
3

Module 3: Grounding with Retrieval

5 lessons · Shu-Ha-Ri cycle

  • RAG as Context Selection: Retrieval Is a Filter, Not a Firehose
  • Chunking, Embedding, and Indexing for Precision Retrieval
  • Content Filtering and Reranking: Only the Relevant Survives
  • Advanced RAG Patterns: Query Transformation and Hybrid Search
  • Hands-On: Build a Grounding Pipeline That Kills Hallucinations
4

Module 4: Tools Through MCP

5 lessons · Shu-Ha-Ri cycle

  • Function Calling from First Principles: APIs, Services, and Code
  • The Model Context Protocol: Standardized Tool Discovery
  • The CLI as a Tool Surface: Direct System Interaction
  • Tool Context Budgeting: Exposing Capability Without Bloat
  • Hands-On: Wire Your Agent into the MCP Ecosystem
5

Module 5: Memory & State

5 lessons · Shu-Ha-Ri cycle

  • Short-Term vs Long-Term Memory: What to Keep, What to Forget
  • Context Growth Management: Sliding Windows, Compaction, Summarization
  • Persistent State: Sessions, Profiles, and Knowledge That Survives Restarts
  • Memory Retrieval: Bringing the Right Past into the Present
  • Hands-On: Add a Memory Hierarchy to Your Context Engine
6

Module 6: Multi-Agent Context Coordination

5 lessons · Shu-Ha-Ri cycle

  • Context Isolation: Why Agents Poison Each Other's Windows
  • Shared Context Stores: Blackboards, Artifacts, and Handoffs
  • Orchestration Patterns: Who Knows What, and When
  • Context Routing: Delivering the Right Slice to the Right Agent
  • Hands-On: Coordinate Context Across a Research Agent Team
7

Module 7: Production Context Systems

5 lessons · Shu-Ha-Ri cycle

  • Context Observability: Tracing Every Token into the Window
  • Evaluating Context Quality: Relevance, Freshness, and Efficiency Metrics
  • Cost Engineering: Caching, Compression, and Token Budgets at Scale
  • Failure Modes: Context Poisoning, Drift, and Silent Truncation
  • Capstone: Ship a Production-Grade Context Engine End to End

Production-Grade Tech Stack

Master the same tools used by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to build frontier AI systems

PythonMCPDSPyLangChainLlamaIndexVector DatabasesClaude APIOpenAI API

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from prompt engineering?

Prompt engineering is writing better sentences. Context engineering is systems design: programmatically selecting, retrieving, compressing, and prioritizing everything that enters the model's window—instructions, retrieved knowledge, tool results, memory, and state. Prompts are one input; you'll engineer the whole pipeline.

Do I need to have taken the agent masterclasses first?

No, but they pair perfectly. This masterclass is the connective tissue between Build Your Own Autonomous AI Agent and Build Your Own Multi-Agent AI Teams—the layer that determines whether those systems are reliable or brittle. Intermediate Python is the only hard requirement.

Which frameworks and models do you use?

You'll build the core mechanisms from first principles, then see how tools like DSPy, LangChain, and LlamaIndex implement them—working against frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. You learn the discipline, not a framework, so your skills survive every new release.

What will I have built by the end?

A complete, production-grade context engine: instruction and skill layer, retrieval grounding, MCP tool integration, memory hierarchy, multi-agent context coordination, and observability. It's infrastructure you can drop under any agent you ever build.

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Command $250K-$400K salaries or save $100K-$500K in annual API costs. Own your model weights. Build defensible technology moats. Become irreplaceable.

Starting at
$1,497

Self-paced · Lifetime access · 30-day guarantee

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This is not just education. This is technological sovereignty.

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