Context is the Code: The Complete Three-Phase Process for Building with AI Agents

In the first article, I named the phases: Context Engineering, The Build Phase, Production and Deployment. That naming had an unintentional effect. By calling Phase One “Context Engineering,” I implied that context engineering was something you did once — at the beginning — and then left behind. Students interpreted the three phases as sequential and cleanly separated. Do the context work. Then build. Then deploy.