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← See today's latestContext engineering becomes the new core skill, SMU launches agent-harness course
Context Engineering Discipline
Prompt engineering just got demoted to a subset skill.
SMU Academy launched a course treating context engineering as the discipline that actually determines whether your agents work reliably [Source: SMU Academy]. The curriculum covers curating high-signal context through system instructions and function calling, implementing retrieval strategies including RAG and agentic retrieval patterns, and engineering memory across long tasks using compaction and sub-agent architectures. The hands-on focus: diagnosing agent failures and managing finite context windows before they degrade your outputs.
This formalizes what you've been building piece by piece all week.
Agent Harness Architecture
Your agent's scaffolding matters more than the model inside it.
The SMU program centers on harness engineering—the tools, memory, state, and control logic surrounding your model [Source: SMU Academy]. The key insight: context and harness are nested disciplines, not parallel ones, because the harness contains and delivers the context. Trace-based evaluation and guardrails for production deployment round out the practical stack. The goal is transforming your prototypes into dependable systems that don't surprise you at 2 AM.
Worth mapping your current Claude Code setup against this framework.
Udemy Claude Code Masterclass
A structured path through agent teams and subagents just landed on Udemy.
The new Claude Code 2026 course covers the full ecosystem—MCP servers, skills architecture, context window management, and multi-agent orchestration [Source: Udemy]. At seven hours, it promises to bridge the gap between the scattered YouTube tutorials you've been piecing together and a coherent mental model of how all the components fit. The curriculum explicitly contrasts agentic coding with traditional approaches in its opening section.
Could save you the synthesis work you've been doing manually.
Claude Code 2026 : Agents Teams, Subagents, MCP & Skills - Udemy7 hours ago ... Agentic Coding vs Traditional Coding3:31. Claude Ecosystem (Simplified)2 ... Context Window Management of Claude Code5 lectures • 29min. What is Context ...udemy.com