Context Engineering

By 2026, the real job in modern AI systems is not writing a clever prompt. It is deciding what the model sees, when it sees it, and how that context is structured, persisted, and turned into durable memory.

RAG pipelines gave agents memory. But the next wave of agentic infrastructure is converging on a different primitive entirely: the virtual filesystem. From Mintlify's ChromaFs to Turso's AgentFS to Box's enterprise VFS layer, the pattern is unmistakable. The filesystem is becoming the universal interface for agent cognition, and the database is quietly becoming its substrate.