Context Engineering
The reason your AI tools produce garbage at scale is context rot. PRISM solves it.
Every other AI coding tool lets context accumulate until quality degrades. PRISM engineers context from the ground up — fresh windows, structured files, isolated worktrees — so plan 50 runs as cleanly as plan 1.
How context engineering works
Six capabilities that keep every agent operating with clean, relevant, complete context.
Fresh 200K context per plan
Every plan executor gets a brand-new context window. No accumulated summaries, no degraded quality. Plan 5 runs as cleanly as plan 1. This is why PRISM produces consistent results where other tools fall apart at scale.
Sub-30% main context utilization
Heavy lifting happens in subagent contexts. Your main session stays fast and responsive even during full-phase execution. The orchestrator coordinates — it never carries execution debt.
Structured context files
PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, ROADMAP.md, STATE.md — each file serves a specific purpose in the context hierarchy. Always available to every agent, never bloated with stale information.
Discussion-driven context capture
The system identifies gray areas in your requirements and asks targeted questions before planning begins. Your answers become precision instructions that feed directly into plan generation — no ambiguity survives to execution.
Context isolation per worktree
Each phase executes in its own Git worktree with its own context boundary. No cross-contamination between features. No context bleed between teams. Clean separation by design.
Automatic context refresh
When a phase completes, downstream phases receive updated context reflecting the new codebase state. No manual syncing, no stale references, no drift between what agents think exists and what actually does.
Context rot vs. context engineering
Without PRISM
- Context fills up over time — quality degrades silently
- One agent carries all accumulated state
- Summaries replace actual code context
- Plan 10 produces worse results than plan 1
- No isolation — features bleed into each other
With PRISM
- Fresh 200K context per plan — zero accumulated garbage
- Specialized agents with dedicated context windows
- Structured files replace unstructured history
- Consistent quality regardless of project size
- Worktree isolation prevents cross-feature contamination
Stop fighting context rot
Start a 14-day pilot and see what happens when every agent gets fresh, structured context for every task.