In the rapidly evolving landscape of LLM-powered applications, teams often obsess over model selection, prompt engineering, and inference optimization while overlooking the single most impactful variable: context quality. Research from Anthropic's deployment studies shows that context quality improvements yield 3-5x better outcomes than prompt refinements alone, yet fewer than 15% of engineering teams have systematic approaches to measuring it.
123456789101112from dataclasses import dataclass from datetime import datetime, timedelta import numpy as np @dataclass class ContextQualityScore: relevance: float # 0-1, semantic + learned relevance completeness: float # 0-1, required info coverage freshness: float # 0-1, time-decayed score accuracy: float # 0-1, verification score coherence: float # 0-1, chunk boundary quality terseness: float # 0-1, signal-to-noise ratio
123456789101112from dataclasses import dataclass from typing import List, Dict, Optional import numpy as np from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer @dataclass class ContextQualityMetrics: relevance_score: float # 0-1, semantic similarity to query coverage_score: float # 0-1, % of required info present freshness_score: float # 0-1, based on data age density_score: float # 0-1, signal-to-noise ratio redundancy_score: float # 0-1, lower is better
123456789101112from dataclasses import dataclass from typing import List, Dict import numpy as np from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer @dataclass class ContextChunk: content: str source: str timestamp: float metadata: Dict
123456789101112interface ContextMetrics { // Composition metrics totalTokens: number; componentBreakdown: Record<string, number>; // tokens per component retrievedChunks: number; filteredChunks: number; // Quality metrics avgRelevanceScore: number; contextCoverage: number; // % of query topics covered redundancyRatio: number; // duplicate information freshnessScore: number;
123456789101112from dataclasses import dataclass from typing import List, Optional import statistics from datetime import datetime, timedelta @dataclass class QualityAlert: severity: str # 'warning', 'critical' metric: str current_value: float threshold: float baseline: float