Sources
S1 — Anthropic Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial
URL: https://github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial
- authority: official-docs
- supports: Core prompt concepts and best practices — basic prompt structure, few-shot learning, chain-of-thought.
- key-fact: "Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting enables complex reasoning capabilities through intermediate reasoning steps."
S2 — OpenAI Prompt Engineering Best Practices
- authority: official-docs
- supports: The six prompt-engineering strategies — write clear instructions, provide reference text, split complex tasks, give the model time to think, use external tools, and test systematically.
- key-fact: "For best results, we generally recommend using the latest, most capable models. Newer models tend to be easier to prompt engineer."
S3 — Anthropic Prompt Engineering Overview
URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview
- authority: official-docs
- supports: Claude-specific prompt techniques, including XML tags, role setting, and long-context handling.
- key-fact: "An example-filled tutorial that covers the prompt engineering concepts found in the docs."
S4 — Prompt Engineering Guide - Few-Shot Prompting
URL: https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/fewshot
- authority: authoritative-guide
- supports: The definition, usage, and best practices of few-shot prompting.
- key-fact: "Following the findings from Min et al. (2022), here are a few more tips about demonstrations/exemplars when doing few-shot: the label space and the distribution of the input text specified by the demonstrations are both important."
S5 — Prompt Engineering Guide - Chain-of-Thought
URL: https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/cot
- authority: authoritative-guide
- supports: The principle, implementation, and use cases of chain-of-thought prompting.
- key-fact: "Introduced in Wei et al. (2022), chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting enables complex reasoning capabilities through intermediate reasoning steps."
S6 — IBM Prompt Engineering Guide 2026
URL: https://www.ibm.com/think/prompt-engineering
- authority: authoritative-guide
- supports: The latest trends and a comprehensive guide to prompt engineering in 2026.
- key-fact: "Prompt engineering is the new coding. In a world increasingly driven by machine learning, the ability to communicate with AI-generated systems by using natural language is essential."
S7 — Prompt Engineering Best Practices 2026
URL: https://thomas-wiegold.com/blog/prompt-engineering-best-practices-2026/
- authority: blog
- supports: The latest 2026 prompt-engineering practices and differences between models.
- key-fact: "The discipline has split cleanly in two: casual prompting (which anyone can do — the models got better at reading intent) and production context engineering (which is a genuine engineering skill)."
S8 — AI Prompt Debugging: Fixing Issues Through Iteration
URL: https://whitebeardstrategies.com/blog/ai-prompt-debugging-fixing-issues-through-iteration/
- authority: blog
- supports: A systematic method for debugging and iteratively improving prompts.
- key-fact: "Debugging AI prompts isn't a one-time task; it's an iterative process where each cycle reveals new insights."
S9 — 提示工程指南(中文)
URL: https://www.promptingguide.ai/zh
- authority: authoritative-guide
- supports: Chinese-language prompt-engineering learning resources and best practices.
- key-fact: "提示工程不仅仅是关于设计和研发提示词。它包含了与大语言模型交互和研发的各种技能和技术。"
S10 — Chain of Thought Prompting Guide
URL: https://www.prompthub.us/blog/chain-of-thought-prompting-guide
- authority: authoritative-guide
- supports: A detailed implementation of chain-of-thought prompting, with examples.
- key-fact: "At its core, Chain of Thought prompting encourages the model to think through the problem in a step-by-step manner, which is supposed to mimic how humans break down complex problems."
S11 — Few-Shot Prompting Guide
URL: https://www.prompthub.us/blog/the-few-shot-prompting-guide
- authority: authoritative-guide
- supports: The design principles and practical application of few-shot prompting.
- key-fact: "Few shot prompting is a prompt engineering technique where you insert examples in your prompt, training the model on what you want the output to look and sound like."
S12 — Prompt Engineering for Code Generation
URL: https://graphite.com/guides/better-prompts-ai-code
- authority: blog
- supports: Prompt best practices for code-generation scenarios.
- key-fact: "By spelling out these details, you greatly reduce ambiguity. Microsoft's Developer Tools research group observed that prompts with explicit specifications reduced the need for back-and-forth refinements by 68%."
S13 — Prompt - Wikipedia
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_engineering
- authority: encyclopedia
- supports: The standard definition of a prompt and of prompt engineering.
- key-fact: "Prompt engineering is the process of structuring text that can be interpreted and understood by a generative AI model."
S14 — Large Language Model - Wikipedia
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
- authority: encyclopedia
- supports: The basic concepts and workings of large language models.
- key-fact: "A large language model (LLM) is a type of language model notable for its ability to achieve general-purpose language understanding and generation."
S15 — Zero-shot Learning - Wikipedia
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-shot_learning
- authority: encyclopedia
- supports: The definition and application of zero-shot learning.
- key-fact: "Zero-shot learning is a problem setup in machine learning where, at test time, a learner observes samples from classes which were not observed during training."