Design multi-agent AI workflows with clear boundaries, handoffs, and monitoring. Use when a complex PM task should run as parallel specialized agents instead of one linear process.
context-engineering-advisor
context-engineering-advisor is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by deanpeters. Its author describes it as: “Diagnose context stuffing vs. context engineering. Use when an AI workflow feels bloated, brittle, or hard to steer reliably.”. The project has 6.5k stars on GitHub and ships custom license terms, so review them before reuse. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills`.
What context-engineering-advisor does
Guide product managers through diagnosing whether they're doing **context stuffing** (jamming volume without intent) or **context engineering** (shaping structure for attention). Use this to identify context boundaries, fix "Context Hoarding Disorder," and implement tactical practices like bounded domains, episodic retrieval, and the Research→Plan→Reset→Implement cycle.
Installation
Add context-engineering-advisor to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-SkillsAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
What's inside
The SKILL.md for context-engineering-advisor is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Paradigm Shift: Parametric → Contextual Intelligence
- Context Stuffing vs. Context Engineering
- The Anti-Pattern: Context Stuffing
- Real Context Engineering: Core Principles
- The 5 Diagnostic Questions (Detect Context Hoarding Disorder)
- Memory Architecture: Two-Layer System
- The Research → Plan → Reset → Implement Cycle
- Anti-Patterns (What This Is NOT)
- When to Use This Skill
When to use it
Reach for context-engineering-advisor when you want workflow help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Ships in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, an established project with 6,527 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does context-engineering-advisor do?
- Diagnose context stuffing vs. context engineering. Use when an AI workflow feels bloated, brittle, or hard to steer reliably.
- How do I install context-engineering-advisor?
- Run /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills before installing.
- Is context-engineering-advisor free to use?
- context-engineering-advisor is publicly available on GitHub, but deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
- Where does context-engineering-advisor come from?
- context-engineering-advisor ships inside deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 6,527 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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