Observed facts: The Habr article says agents may inspect repository structure, documentation, conventions, examples, and tests before making a change. It recommends a concise root-level project map and more detailed instructions at domain or task level. It also proposes pointing agents to reference implementations and removing stale guidance.
Mechanism: The article treats context as something to load progressively: global map, domain guidance, task instructions, reference implementation, and relevant source. This narrows repeated exploration and avoids giving every task unrelated project knowledge.
Why now: The article describes coding agents as working across ordinary development tasks, including exploring projects, running tests, and checking results. As that work touches larger codebases, preparatory repository exploration becomes a practical context-management concern.
First implication: Teams can test whether a project map, scoped instructions, and golden examples reduce repeated repository exploration without sacrificing task quality.
Evidence boundary: The source is a practitioner article proposing patterns, not a controlled evaluation; it supplies no comparative token-savings measurements.
First watch condition: Watch for project-level measurements that compare token use and task quality before and after these context changes.