Context Engineering Maturity Model — AI Glossary

The Context Engineering Maturity Model is a 5-level framework for describing how sophisticated a team's context assembly practice is. Level 1 is static hand-written prompts; Level 2 adds parameterized templates; Level 3 introduces dynamic retrieval; Level 4 adds prompt caching and memory; Level 5 runs multi-source orchestration with semantic caching and evaluation loops. Teams self-assess their level and get concrete upgrade paths to the next.