Prompting
18 resources
Interactive prompt engineering tutorial
by Anthropic
Hands-on notebook course: you edit prompts and see results, no coding needed.
Prompt engineering overview (Claude docs)
by Anthropic
Official starting point for prompting Claude, with links to each technique.
Prompt Engineering Guide
by DAIR.AI
Broad, frequently updated reference of named prompting techniques.
Prompt design strategies (Gemini API)
by Google
Google's official prompting guide with clear before/after examples.
Learn Prompting
Free structured course for people with no technical background.
Prompt engineering (OpenAI API docs)
by OpenAI
OpenAI's official baseline on message roles, instructions and examples.
Prompting best practices (Claude docs)
by Anthropic
Current-model guidance in one page: XML structure, examples, thinking, agentic use. (Old use-xml-tags, multishot and extended-thinking-tips URLs redirect here.)
Prompting Fundamentals and How to Apply them Effectively
by Eugene Yan
Practitioner write-up applying core techniques to real tasks.
Structured outputs (Gemini API)
by Google
Gemini's equivalent: constrain responses to a JSON schema.
Prompt engineering how-to (Llama docs)
by Meta
Official guide for prompting open-weight Llama models.
GPT-5 prompting guide
by OpenAI
Model-specific advice on agentic eagerness, tool preambles and instruction conflicts.
Reasoning best practices
by OpenAI
When to pick a reasoning model and how prompting them differs from chat models.
Structured model outputs
by OpenAI
How to get schema-valid JSON instead of hoping the model formats it right.
Prompt Engineering
by Lilian Weng
Dense, research-backed survey of prompting methods with citations.
The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompt Engineering Techniques
A broad research taxonomy for comparing prompting techniques and finding their sources.
Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models
Sample several reasoning paths and take the majority answer.
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
Early research on using worked reasoning examples to improve performance on reasoning tasks.
Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
Search over branching reasoning steps; basis for many planning approaches.