Archon is an entire operating system for AI coding. For you, it's a sleek interface to manage knowledge, context, and tasks for your projects. For the AI coding assistant(s), it's an MCP server to collaborate on and leverage the same knowledge, context, and tasks.
The honeymoon phase for vibe coding is over and context engineering is the new paradigm for AI coding. Earlier this year we all fell for the vibe coding but it completely falls apart when you try to build anything real or scale it up. The biggest problem? AI coding assistants miss context or lack it entirely, and intuition doesn't scale - structure does.
Context engineering treats your instructions, rules, and documentation as an engineered resource requiring careful architecture, just like everything else in real software. It's not just prompt engineering - it's supplying all the relevant facts, knowledge, rules, plans, and tools so an LLM can actually accomplish the task at hand.
