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Principle of Least Context
A concept derived from the principle of least privilege in security engineering, stating that information sent to an external system should be exactly sufficient to answer the current question. Applied to prompt management in AI programming, it requires contracts to specify explicitly which files are permitted and which paths are prohibited.
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Oct 13
The minimum context principle derives from the principle of least privilege in security engineering, and holds that the information sent to an external system should be exactly enough to answer the current question.
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