prompt-engineering-patterns SKILL.md skillA
prompt-engineering-patterns from asymmetric-al/core is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add asymmetric-al/core/prompt-engineering-patterns@git:20261001.4ae104ePins git:20261001.4ae104e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- asymmetric-al/core
- Path
.agents/skills/prompt-engineering-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261001.4ae104e, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 18, 2026
- Size
- 14,462 bytes
- Repository stars
- 379
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Master advanced prompt engineering techniques to maximize LLM performance, reliability, and controllability in production. Use when optimizing prompts, improving LLM outputs, or designing production prompt templates.
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 Patterns Master advanced prompt engineering techniques to maximize LLM performance, reliability, and controllability. ## When to Use This Skill - Designing complex prompts for production LLM applications - Optimizing prompt performance and consistency - Implementing structured reasoning patterns (chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought) - Building few-shot learning systems with dynamic example selection - Creating reusable prompt templates with variable interpolation - Debugging and refining prompts that produce inconsistent outputs - Implementing system prompts for specialized AI assistants - Using structured outputs (JSON mode) for reliable parsing ## Core Capabilities ### 1. Few-Shot Learning - Example selection strategies (semantic similarity, diversity sampling) - Balancing example count with context window constraints - Constructing effective demonstrations with input-output pairs - Dynamic example retrieval from knowledge bases - Handling edge cases through strategic example selection ### 2. Chain-of-Thought Prompting - Step-by-step reasoning elicitation - Zero-shot CoT with "Let's think step by step" - Few-shot CoT with reasoning traces …
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How to install
mdr add asymmetric-al/core/prompt-engineering-patterns@sha256:1e6bafad310a1954The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.4ae104e, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Feb 18, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 112 days.
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| git:20261001.4ae104e latest | 2026-10-01 | 4ae104e | 14,462 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.15c9348 | 2026-09-23 | 15c9348 | 14,463 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260218.048cbae | 2026-02-18 | 048cbae | 14,435 B | A | view |
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 (14462 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
asymmetric-al/core · 379 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch develop
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qhubwifgv2votlry GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=asymmetric-al/core/prompt-engineering-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1e6bafad310a1954339851587d81637f20362bea9344459b7090e6e7982e69fe
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