Prompt engineering (OpenAI API docs)

by OpenAI

OpenAI's official baseline on message roles, instructions and examples.

This documentation explains how to organize instructions and examples when using OpenAI models. It provides a starting reference for separating the task from the material the model should process.

Level: Beginner
Models: gpt
Category: Prompting
Tags: official-guide
Source date: date not stated
Added: 2026-10-18
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Status: ok

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