Prompt Engineering Patterns

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name: prompt-engineering-patterns
description: >-
  This skill should be used when the user asks to "optimize a prompt", "improve prompt
  performance", "design a prompt template", "write better prompts", "debug prompt issues", "use
  chain-of-thought", "structured prompting", "few-shot prompting", or wants to apply advanced
  prompt engineering patterns for production LLM applications.
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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

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