Courses & Guides
Courses, certificates, interactive tutorials and long-form reference guides that teach prompt engineering and context engineering.
PromptBench
A Microsoft research framework for evaluating language models with a focus on prompt robustness, including adversarial prompt attacks and prompt engineering method comparisons. The repository is archived and kept for reference.
Verbalized Sampling
A reference implementation of a training-free prompting strategy that asks a model for a distribution of responses with probabilities, which the authors report reduces mode collapse in creative tasks.
Anthropic Courses
Anthropic's educational course repository covering API fundamentals, prompt engineering, evaluations and tool use. The repository is archived, with newer material published on Anthropic Academy.
Brex Prompt Engineering Guide
An internal Brex guide published openly, explaining how large language models behave and giving practical rules for writing prompts in production systems. It is no longer actively updated.
LMOps
A Microsoft Research collection of projects on making language models usable in production, including automatic prompt optimization, prompt compression and structured prompting techniques.
Prompt Engineering Guide (DAIR.AI)
The repository behind promptingguide.ai, collecting explanations, papers, notebooks and worked examples for prompting techniques from zero-shot through to agent and context engineering.
Anthropic Claude Cookbooks
Anthropic's official notebook collection showing working patterns for Claude, including prompt structures for classification, extraction, tool use, retrieval and long-context work.
12-Factor Agents
A written set of principles for building reliable LLM software, including factors on owning your prompts, owning context construction and treating tools as structured output.
Prompt Engineering Techniques (NirDiamant)
A tutorial repository of twenty-two prompt engineering techniques, each explained with a runnable Jupyter notebook that moves from basic structure to advanced strategies.
Anthropic Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial
Anthropic's hands-on tutorial that teaches prompting for Claude through nine chapters of exercises run in notebooks, from basic structure to complex multi-step prompts.
Generative AI for Beginners
A free twenty-one-lesson Microsoft course covering generative AI fundamentals, with dedicated lessons on prompt engineering, prompt templates and building applications.
Anthropic Prompting Documentation
Anthropic's official prompt engineering documentation for Claude, covering clarity, examples, structured formatting, chain-of-thought and extended thinking guidance.
Awesome Context Engineering
A survey repository tracing the move from prompt engineering to context engineering, indexing papers and systems that manage what goes into a model's context window.
Learn Prompting
An online course and reference covering prompt engineering from basics through advanced techniques, prompt security and applied tracks, with free and paid tiers.
OpenAI Academy
OpenAI's free learning platform with courses and sessions on using and building with its models, including practical prompting material for work and development.
Graph of Thoughts
The official implementation of the Graph of Thoughts paper, which models a prompt-solving process as a graph of thoughts that can be merged, refined and scored.
Jasper
A marketing-focused AI platform with brand voice settings, reusable templates and agents, where prompt configuration is handled through campaign-level controls.
OpenAI Cookbook
OpenAI's official examples repository with notebooks and guides covering prompting techniques, structured outputs, function calling, embeddings and evaluation.
DeepLearning.AI
Andrew Ng's education company, publishing short courses on prompt engineering, LLM application development, agents and evaluation, many of them free to audit.
LLM Engineer's Handbook
The companion code repository for a published handbook on building and deploying language model applications, including prompt design and evaluation chapters.
Tree of Thoughts
A plug-and-play implementation of tree-of-thoughts prompting, where a model explores and evaluates multiple reasoning branches before committing to an answer.
LangChain Academy
LangChain's free course platform teaching agent development with LangGraph and related tooling, including how prompts and state are managed in agent graphs.
SuperPrompt
An experimental prompt built around structured XML-like reasoning scaffolds, published as an attempt to probe how models handle complex nested instructions.
AI Product Development Toolkit
A set of prompt templates and agent configurations for user-centred product development, walking from research and requirements through to specifications.
LangGPT
A structured prompt methodology and template set that formats prompts like a configuration document with role, goals, constraints and workflow sections.
Google AI Professional Certificate
Google's hands-on certificate programme, which grew out of its Prompting Essentials course, teaching practical prompting with Gemini and related tools.
Agents Best Practices
A provider-neutral guide and agent skill describing prompt and harness design practices that work across Codex, Claude Code and similar coding agents.
Learn AI Engineering
A free curated learning path for AI and language model engineering, sequencing courses, videos and articles including prompt engineering fundamentals.
Awesome GPT Prompt Engineering
A curated index of prompt engineering resources, linking to tools, papers, prompt datasets and learning material rather than hosting prompts itself.
Awesome LLMOps
A curated directory of tools for operating language model applications, with sections for prompt management, evaluation, observability and serving.
Claude Code Ultimate Guide
A comprehensive community guide to Claude Code covering agentic workflows, hooks, skills and prompt patterns, with quizzes and production examples.
AI Notes
A long-running engineer's notebook on AI developments, including sections on prompt engineering tooling and techniques, kept as an open reference.
Awesome AI SDKs
A database of SDKs, frameworks and tools for creating, monitoring and deploying AI agents, useful for finding prompt and eval tooling by category.
Better Agents
A published set of standards from the LangWatch team for building agents well, covering prompt structure, evaluation habits and failure handling.
PromptoMania
A visual prompt builder that assembles image prompts from style, lighting and camera options, paired with a model directory and written guides.
ChatGPT System Prompt Collection
A collection of GPT system prompts together with notes on prompt injection and prompt-leaking techniques and how builders defend against them.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What counts as courses & guides?
Courses, certificates, interactive tutorials and long-form reference guides that teach prompt engineering and context engineering.
What are courses & guides?
Courses, certificates, interactive tutorials and long-form reference guides that teach prompt engineering and context engineering.
Do I need a tool for this?
Solo users often do fine with a text file. Teams shipping prompts to production usually want versioning and evaluation. Start with the free tier of a tool in the category.