Prompting for intermediate learners

7 resources

• 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.)

  Intermediate · claude · date not stated

• Prompting Fundamentals and How to Apply them Effectively

  by Eugene Yan

  Practitioner write-up applying core techniques to real tasks.

  Intermediate · any · 2024-05-26

• Structured outputs (Gemini API)

  by Google

  Gemini's equivalent: constrain responses to a JSON schema.

  Intermediate · gemini · date not stated

• Prompt engineering how-to (Llama docs)

  by Meta

  Official guide for prompting open-weight Llama models.

  Intermediate · llama · date not stated

• GPT-5 prompting guide

  by OpenAI

  Model-specific advice on agentic eagerness, tool preambles and instruction conflicts.

  Intermediate · gpt-5 · date not stated

• Reasoning best practices

  by OpenAI

  When to pick a reasoning model and how prompting them differs from chat models.

  Intermediate · openai-reasoning-models · date not stated

• Structured model outputs

  by OpenAI

  How to get schema-valid JSON instead of hoping the model formats it right.

  Intermediate · gpt · date not stated