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Context Engineering Lessons from Building Azure SRE Agent

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Dec 26, 2025

We started with 100+ tools and 50+ specialized agents. We ended with 5 core tools and a handful of generalists. The agent got more reliable, not less.

We spent a long time chasing model upgrades, polishing prompts, and debating orchestration strategies. The gains were visible in offline evals, but they didn’t translate into the reliability and outc...
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