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ai-prompt-engineering from vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/ai-prompt-engineering@v1.2

Pins v1.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public
Path
skills/universal/ai-prompt-engineering/SKILL.md
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Repository stars
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License
MIT

Prompt engineering for production LLMs — structured outputs, evals, RAG, tool workflows, multimodal prompting, and safety. Use when designing, debugging, or shipping prompts.

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 Engineering — Operational Skill

## Route Elsewhere

- agent architecture and orchestration -> [ai-agents](../ai-agents/SKILL.md)
- retrieval quality and chunking -> [ai-rag](../ai-rag/SKILL.md)
- model selection and prompt vs RAG vs fine-tune architecture -> [ai-architecture-advisor](../ai-architecture-advisor/SKILL.md)
- fine-tuning or distilling a model -> [ai-llm](../ai-llm/SKILL.md)
- inference latency and cost optimization -> [ai-llm-inference](../ai-llm-inference/SKILL.md)
- deployment, monitoring, and platform controls -> [ai-mlops](../ai-mlops/SKILL.md)

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## Quick Start

1. Classify the prompt job: structured output, extraction, RAG, tool use, rewrite, classification, or release workflow.
2. Start from a template or provider-native prompt feature rather than writing from scratch.
3. Add explicit output and refusal rules.
4. Add validation: schema checks, citation checks, post-tool checks, and failure handling.
5. Add evals before calling the prompt production-ready.

## Quick Reference

- Schema design and repair path → [core patterns](references/core-patterns.md#schema-design-for-llm-output).
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/ai-prompt-engineering@sha256:44c8650defb63f37

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2, 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.

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A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13609 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

GitHub

vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public · 101 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aaqvmo6n4fkenkev
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/ai-prompt-engineering
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/44c8650defb63f375e6de6dc9f3c7a877596c96fc554fad4d69c86b3db6c1976

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