Summary: Claude power users rarely edit their context files and often can’t find them. Your AI agent is only as powerful as its context library.

AI agents have made curating context as important as writing prompts. The agent can do the typing, but deciding what context to keep, where to put it, and when to update it is left entirely to the user — and even the experts are struggling. This is true for UX professionals as much as for the Claude power users from various industries in our recent study . Our participants spent more effort engineering context libraries than crafting prompts (most of which they casually dictated).…