| name | prompt-engineering-patterns |
| description | Master advanced prompt engineering techniques to maximize LLM performance, reliability, and controllability. |
| type | skill |
| created | 2026-02-27T00:00:00.000Z |
| domain | ai-ml |
| category | prompt-engineering |
| risk | unknown |
| source | community |
| tags | ["skill","ai-ml","prompt-engineering","prompt","engineering"] |
Prompt Engineering Patterns
Master advanced prompt engineering techniques to maximize LLM performance, reliability, and controllability.
Do not use this skill when
- The task is unrelated to prompt engineering patterns
- You need a different domain or tool outside this scope
Instructions
- Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
- Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
- Provide actionable steps and verification.
- If detailed examples are required, open
resources/implementation-playbook.md.
Use this skill when
- Designing complex prompts for production LLM applications
- Optimizing prompt performance and consistency
- Implementing structured reasoning patterns (chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought)
- Building few-shot learning systems with dynamic example selection
- Creating reusable prompt templates with variable interpolation
- Debugging and refining prompts that produce inconsistent outputs
- Implementing system prompts for specialized AI assistants
Core Capabilities
1. Few-Shot Learning
- Example selection strategies (semantic similarity, diversity sampling)
- Balancing example count with context window constraints
- Constructing effective demonstrations with input-output pairs
- Dynamic example retrieval from knowledge bases
- Handling edge cases through strategic example selection
2. Chain-of-Thought Prompting
- Step-by-step reasoning elicitation
- Zero-shot CoT with "Let's think step by step"
- Few-shot CoT with reasoning traces
- Self-consistency techniques (sampling multiple reasoning paths)
- Verification and validation steps
3. Prompt Optimization
- Iterative refinement workflows
- A/B testing prompt variations
- Measuring prompt performance metrics (accuracy, consistency, latency)
- Reducing token usage while maintaining quality
- Handling edge cases and failure modes
4. Template Systems
- Variable interpolation and formatting
- Conditional prompt sections
- Multi-turn conversation templates
- Role-based prompt composition
- Modular prompt components
5. System Prompt Design
- Setting model behavior and constraints
- Defining output formats and structure