Skill Course
Prompt Engineering Fundamentals
Design reliable instructions, context, examples, and outputs for model-powered software.
Learning objectives
Write clear prompts with explicit constraints
Use examples and output schemas effectively
Develop prompts through repeatable evaluation
Reduce common hallucination and instruction failures
Defend against basic prompt-injection risks
Course coverage
Prompt anatomy: instructions, context, constraints and output formats
System prompts, user prompts, few-shot examples, and role and task specification
Structured prompting, JSON and schema outputs, extraction, classification and transformation
Reasoning-oriented prompting patterns, decomposition, reflection and critique patterns
Prompt templates, variables, reusable prompts and prompt versioning
Prompt evaluation, testing, hallucination reduction and failure analysis
Prompt-injection awareness, safety and responsible prompting
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