Ledger
What the scout will never brief you on again. Everything here is assumed known, so new terms are measured against it.
Prompting & context 9
- Prompt engineering
- Context engineering (context management, context windows)
- System prompts
- Few-shot / zero-shot prompting
- Chain-of-thought prompting (CoT)
- Prompt caching
- Structured output (JSON mode, constrained decoding)
- Prompt injection / jailbreaking
- Cryptographic context injection (encrypted prompt injection)
Agents & orchestration 11
- AI agents / agentic workflows
- Agent harnesses
- Tool use / function calling
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- ACP (Agent Client Protocol)
- A2A (Agent-to-Agent protocol)
- Multi-agent orchestration / subagents
- Computer use (GUI agents, browser agents)
- Agent skills
- Human-in-the-loop
- Agent memory (persistent memory, memory files)
Retrieval & knowledge 5
- RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)
- Embeddings
- Vector databases / semantic search
- Reranking
- Knowledge graphs
Models & training 10
- Fine-tuning (SFT, LoRA)
- RLHF / RLAIF
- Distillation
- Quantization
- Mixture of experts (MoE)
- Reasoning models / test-time compute (inference-time scaling)
- Speculative decoding
- Multimodal models
- Diffusion models
- Transformers / attention
Evaluation & safety 7
- Evals / benchmarks
- LLM-as-judge
- Guardrails
- Red teaming
- Hallucination
- Alignment / Constitutional AI
- Model cards