The Context Development Lifecycle: Optimizing Context for AI Coding Agents

Coding agents can write features and fix bugs. The bottleneck has shifted — from how fast we can write code to how effectively we communicate what we actually want. Context is the new constraint. Most teams store context informally: .cursorrules files, scattered .md documents, Slack threads, tribal knowledge that lives in people&rsquo;s heads. None of it is versioned. None of it is tested. None of…