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Is LLM context just an extended prompt?

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A question on AI Stack Exchange asks whether pasting skills files and project working files directly into a prompt has the same effect as configuring an IDE to include those resources as context for an LLM.

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“Does pasting the contents from skills files and project working files into a prompt, in front of the question (making the prompt very long), have the same effect as configuring the IDE to include those resources as "context" for the LLM?”
AI Stack Exchange, 13 Oct 2026, 23:29.

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