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Writing effective agent instructions is distilled into eight practical tips, emphasizing clarity, specificity, and iterative refinement to improve autonomous task performance.

Meanwhile, context engineering is evolving, with new guidelines that data scientists should apply to their daily workflows for better model outputs.

In RAG pipelines, noisy text from user typos, transcription noise, and OCR errors remains a challenge, as classical spell-check only covers one source, leaving embedding-based retrieval vulnerable to character-level corruption.