Beyond RAG: Build a Relational Context Engine from Scratch
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 12:10pm-1:10pm
- Track/room: Workshops Day 1 · Track 7
- Speaker(s): Peter Werry
- Session type/status: workshop · confirmed
Official Description
In this workshop we'll explore the importance of context engines in modern engineering workflows,
and we'll look at why traditional RAG techniques are no longer enough to deliver the context agents
need. We'll build a structured query engine that fills the gaps left by RAG, translating natural
language into validated database queries over GitHub PR and Issue data. We'll implement schema-aware
prompting, identity resolution, query validation, and error-driven retry loops, and you'll walk away
with a working query engine for your GitHub repository.
Related YouTube Video
Mergeable by default: Building the context engine to save time and tokens — Peter Werry, Unblocked (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
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