prompt-context-engineer SKILL.md skillA
prompt-context-engineer from pnp/copilot-prompts is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pnp/copilot-prompts/prompt-context-engineer@git:20260714.6cfd7a6Pins git:20260714.6cfd7a6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pnp/copilot-prompts
- Path
samples/skills/prompt-context-engineer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260714.6cfd7a6, committed Jul 14, 2026
- Size
- 8,568 bytes
- Repository stars
- 895
- License
- MIT
Transform any rough prompt, request, or idea into a well-structured, context-engineered prompt using Andrej Karpathy's context engineering principles. Use this skill whenever the user asks to improve, rewrite, restructure, optimize, or "engineer" a prompt; mentions prompt engineering or context engineering; pastes a prompt and asks to make it better; wants help writing a system prompt or instructions for an AI; or says things like "turn this into a good prompt", "make this prompt work better…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Prompt Context Engineer Convert a raw prompt or request into a structured prompt built on context engineering principles. The guiding idea, from Andrej Karpathy: context engineering is "the delicate art and science of filling the context window with just the right information for the next step." A prompt is not one clever sentence — it is everything the model sees. The job is to supply each piece of context the task genuinely needs (task framing, background, examples, constraints, output format) and ruthlessly exclude everything it doesn't. Too little or wrongly-formed context and the model can't perform; too much or irrelevant context and quality degrades and cost rises. ## Workflow Follow these four steps in order. ### Step 1 — Diagnose the raw prompt Read the user's original prompt or request and determine: 1. **Target type** — Is this a one-off prompt for a chat assistant, or a reusable system prompt / API instruction? Cues: "system prompt", "for my app", "API", "agent" → system prompt. Otherwise default to a chat prompt. If building a system prompt, also identify what the *user turns* will contain. …
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How to install
mdr add pnp/copilot-prompts/prompt-context-engineer@sha256:1258ad569b641ad9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260714.6cfd7a6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6qcpw2yuvpm26vlz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 14, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8568 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
pnp/copilot-prompts · 895 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6qcpw2yuvpm26vlz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pnp/copilot-prompts/prompt-context-engineer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1258ad569b641ad9a5d56d997a83ddb6335722aeba12e50e04c3fff5a7cab770
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