Igniters-Week3 - Applied context engineering and a todo tracking tool to the Alex Researcher agent

[nsikanikpoh]

Week3 Exercise

Summary

Applied context engineering and a todo tracking tool to the Alex Researcher agent.

Changes

• Added compress_for_context() to cap analysis at 2000 chars before storing to prevent context window overflow.

• Updated ingest_financial_document to return type from Dict to str — returns a minimal confirmation string so the agent does not re-read its own output back into the context window.

• Added update_todo tool to allow the agent to explicitly mark each research step as complete, failed, or skipped, reducing the chance of repeated or out-of-order work.

• Updated the context.py to include a todo template and integrated with get_agent_instructions().

• Updated the server.py to sync with the updated tools.py.

Changes GitHub Repo link and Service URL

Changes made to backend/researcher

Service URL

Screenshots showing how the Agent is making use of the update_todo tool

[iamumarjaved]

@nsikanikpoh I don't see any deployed link to the week 3 task

[nsikanikpoh]

@nsikanikpoh I don't see any deployed link to the week 3 task

@iamumarjaved I just added the service URL to the readme.