🧩the official prompting guides, straight from anthropic openai and google

no blogspam versions. these are the docs the labs themselves publish and actually keep updated

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starts with when prompt engineering is even the right fix, before it gets into technique. most guides skip that part
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Anthropic - Claude 4 prompting best practices
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a literal notebook you run cell by cell. did this one twice, actually stuck the second time
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OpenAI - Prompt engineering guide
the six-strategies version. "give the model time to think" is the one people skip and shouldn't
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OpenAI Cookbook
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the few-shot formatting warning here is underrated, inconsistent example formatting quietly breaks output more than people think