Glossary
Prompt engineering
Designing the instructions and context that make models behave reliably.
Prompt engineering is the craft of specifying tasks to language models: role, constraints, format, examples and the context they need. In production systems it extends beyond single prompts to prompt architecture: versioned templates, dynamic context assembly, and evaluation to catch regressions. Good prompts are engineered artifacts under version control, not lucky strings.
Example from practice
A quoting assistant's prompt specifies tone, mandatory disclaimers, what to do when data is missing, and the output format your CRM accepts: nothing left to chance.
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