GDG Tulsa hosts a Build Hour on May 10 at Gradient designed as an intro to context engineering, the new core skill underneath every working AI workflow.

We walk through what context engineering actually is in plain language: how to write clear specs, how to give an agent the right tools and guardrails, how to break a problem into pieces an agent can handle, and how to review what comes back.

The session uses Gemini and AI Studio for live examples — building a simple agent from scratch, watching it fail in predictable ways, and fixing the context until it works.

We cover the practical patterns Google's own teams use: prompts as specifications, MCPs and tool calls as the agent's hands, and human review as the safety net.

The back half is open Build Hour time — bring a project, bring questions, work alongside other builders, and get unstuck on whatever you're trying to ship.

Attendees leave with: a working mental model of how to direct AI agents, a small working example they built themselves, and a sense of which projects in their own work are now realistic to take on.