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Last updated: August 30, 2026, 10:18 PM ET

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Writing effective agent instructions comes down to clarity, specificity, and providing concrete examples, according to a new practical guide.

Meanwhile, context engineering is evolving rapidly, with updated guidelines that data scientists should apply directly to their daily workflows to improve model performance.

On the retrieval side, noisy text in RAG pipelines remains a thorny issue—user typos, transcription errors, and OCR character mistakes each require different mitigation strategies, and classical spell-check only addresses one of these three sources.