pr-e/openclaw-master-skills/prompt-engineering-patterns
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Master advanced prompt engineering techniques to maximize LLM performance, reliability, and controllability in production. Use when optimizing prompts, improving LLM outputs, or designing production prompt templates.
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Prompt Engineering Patterns
Master advanced prompt engineering techniques to maximize LLM performance, reliability, and controllability.
When to Use This Skill
- Designing complex prompts for production LLM applications
- Optimizing prompt performance and consistency
- Implementing structured reasoning patterns (chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought)
- Building few-shot learning systems with dynamic example selection
- Creating reusable prompt templates with variable interpolation
- Debugging and refining prompts that produce inconsistent outputs
- Implementing system prompts for specialized AI assistants
- Using structured outputs (JSON mode) for reliable parsing
Core Capabilities
1. Few-Shot Learning
- Example selection strategies (semantic similarity, diversity sampling)
- Balancing example count with context window constraints
- Constructing effective demonstrations with input-output pairs
- Dynamic example retrieval from knowledge bases
- Handling edge cases through strategic example selection
2. Chain-of-Thought Prompting
- Step-by-step reasoning elicitation
- Zero-shot CoT with "Let's think step by step"
- Few-shot CoT with reasoning traces
- Self-consistency techniques (sampling multiple reasoning paths)
- Verification and validation steps
3. Structured Outputs
- JSON mode for reliable parsing
- Pydantic schema enforcement
- Type-safe response handling
- Error handling for malformed outputs
4. Prompt Optimization
- Iterative refinement workflows
- A/B testing prompt variations
- Measuring prompt performance metrics (accuracy, consistency, latency)
- Reducing token usage while maintaining quality
- Handling edge cases and failure modes
5. Template Systems
- Variable interpolation and formatting
- Conditional prompt sections
- Multi-turn conversation templates
- Role-based prompt composition
- Modular prompt components
6. System Prompt Design
- Setting model behavior and constraints
- Defining output formats and structure
- Establishing role and expertise
- Safety guidelines and content policies
- Context setting and background information
Quick Start
Key Patterns
Pattern 1: Structured Output with Pydantic
Pattern 2: Chain-of-Thought with Self-Verification
Pattern 3: Few-Shot with Dynamic Example Selection
Pattern 4: Progressive Disclosure
Start with simple prompts, add complexity only when needed:
Pattern 5: Error Recovery and Fallback
Pattern 6: Role-Based System Prompts
Integration Patterns
With RAG Systems
With Validation and Verification
Performance Optimization
Token Efficiency
Caching Common Prefixes
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