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prompt-engineering-patterns

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By wshobson/agents (GitHub) · coding · 42,412 stars · scanned at commit 9c61ab2

This skill should be used when the user asks to "optimize a prompt", "improve prompt performance", "design a prompt template", "write better prompts", "debug prompt issues", "use chain-of-thought", "structured prompting", "few-shot prompting", or wants to apply advanced prompt engineering patterns for production LLM applications.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'prompt-engineering-patterns' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'prompt-engineering-patterns' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named prompt-engineering-patterns already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/wshobson/agents' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '9c61ab243def98f72da12abd41cfcf5bcd91af9d' -- 'plugins/llm-application-dev/skills/prompt-engineering-patterns' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/llm-application-dev/skills/prompt-engineering-patterns' ~/.agents/skills/'prompt-engineering-patterns' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'prompt-engineering-patterns' ~/.claude/skills/'prompt-engineering-patterns' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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