prompting

name	Prompting
description	Meta-prompting standard library — the PAI system for generating, optimizing, and composing prompts programmatically. Owns three pillars: Standards (Anthropic Claude 4.x best practices, context engineering principles, 1,500+ paper synthesis, Fabric pattern system, markdown-first / no-XML-tags); Templates (Handlebars-based — Briefing.hbs, Structure.hbs, Gate.hbs, DynamicAgent.hbs, and eval-specific templates Judge.hbs, Rubric.hbs, TestCase.hbs, Comparison.hbs, Report.hbs used by Agents and Evals skills); and Tools (RenderTemplate.ts for CLI/TypeScript rendering with data-content separation). Philosophy: prompts that write prompts — structure is code, content is data. Delivered 65% token reduction across PAI (53K → 18K tokens) via template extraction. Output is always a prompt to be used elsewhere, not final content. Reference files: Standards.md (complete prompt engineering guide), Tools/RenderTemplate.ts (rendering implementation). NOT FOR generating final content or answers — this skill produces prompts only (for content, use the appropriate domain skill). USE WHEN meta-prompting, template generation, prompt optimization, prompt engineering, write a prompt for, generate an agent prompt, create system prompt, programmatic prompt, Handlebars template, optimize this prompt, prompt hygiene, context engineering, eval prompt, judge prompt, agent briefing.
effort	medium

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