Prompt Chaining and Multi-Step Pipelines

Tool Use and Function Calling

Grounding Responses with External Context

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Prompt Injection and Security Risks

Prompt Failure Modes and Hallucinations

Iterative Prompt Refinement and Testing

Decoding Parameters: Temperature, Top-p, Max Tokens

Controlling Output Format with LLMs

Prompt Templating and Variable Injection

System, User, and Assistant Roles

Role and Persona Prompting

Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Reasoning

Few-Shot Prompting and In-Context Learning

Zero-Shot Prompting

Anatomy of a Prompt

What Prompt Engineering Is

Cost and Latency in LLM Apps

Evaluating LLM Outputs and Prompt Quality

Self-Consistency and Output Verification

Context Window and Token Limits

Agentic Loops and ReAct Pattern

Tool Calling Schema Definition

Prompt Injection Detection

Conversation History Truncation

Self-Consistency Voting

Sequential Prompt Chaining

Context Window Token Budgeting

ReAct Reasoning-Action Loop

Returning Tool Call Results

Role and Persona Prompting

Structured Output Control

Controlling Response Length

Iterative Prompt Refinement

Map-Reduce Summarization

Handling Ambiguity with Clarification

LLM-as-Judge Evaluation

Reducing Hallucinations

Self-Consistency Sampling

Delimiters and Input Isolation

Anatomy of a Well-Structured Prompt

Guardrails and Content Constraints

Message Roles in Chat APIs

Tool/Function Calling Pattern

Agent Orchestration Patterns

Negative Instructions and Constraints

Prompt Chaining and Decomposition

Prompt Templates and Variables

ReAct Pattern

Token Efficiency in Prompt Design

Retrying on API/Parse Failures

Estimating Token Count for a Prompt

Structured Output Constraint via Enum

LLM-as-Judge Evaluation Prompt

Grounding Instructions Against Hallucination

Parsing LLM JSON Output

Top-K Similarity Retrieval

Temperature for Deterministic Output

Stop Sequence Cuts Output Early

Assembling a RAG Prompt

Chunking With Overlap

Detecting Truncated Completions

Template Variable Substitution

Invalid JSON Schema Example

Wrong Message Property Key

Chain-of-Thought Suppressed

Invalid Message Role

Unclosed Input Delimiter

Few-Shot Examples Joined Wrong

Persona in the Wrong Role

Zero-Shot Prompt Interpolation

Guardrails and Constraint Specification

LLM Agent Loop

Cost and Latency in Prompt Design

Summarization Pattern: Stuffing vs Map-Reduce

Prompt Evaluation and Testing

Common Prompting Pitfalls

Least-to-Most Prompting

Iterative Prompt Refinement

Delimiters Separate Instructions from Data

Anatomy of a Prompt

Tool Use / Function Calling

Positive vs Negative Instructions

ReAct Pattern

Persona and Tone Conditioning

Grounding with Reference Text

Prompt Chaining

Self-Consistency

Prompt Templates

Specifying Output Format