Prompt Recipes
Few-Shot Prompting Examples That Ship (2026)
Eight copy-paste few-shot prompting examples that ship: classification, JSON extraction, tone, refusal, edge cases, message-history shots, and dynamic example selection.
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ReAct Prompting: 6 Copy-Paste Recipes That Ship (2026)
ReAct prompting interleaves reasoning and tool calls: Thought, Action, Observation, repeat, until the model has enough to answer. It is how a plain prompt becomes an agent. Six copy-paste ReAct recipes below, each with the failure mode that bites first. Tested July 2026.
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Zero-Shot Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship
Zero-shot prompting is the right default for most tasks in 2026. Five recipes that make instruction-only prompts reliable, plus the exact point to add one example.
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The 2026 Prompt Engineering Cheat Sheet (For People Who Ship)
A terse, production-first prompt engineering cheat sheet for 2026: fifteen patterns, each with a one-line rule, its failure mode, and a link to the full recipe.
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Role Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready role prompting recipes for 2026: domain expert, audience, format contract, adversary, and voice, each with its failure mode.
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Chain of Thought Prompting: 6 Examples That Ship (2026)
Six paste-ready chain of thought prompting examples for 2026, each with its failure mode, plus when reasoning out loud makes the answer worse.
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Prompt Chaining: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready prompt chaining recipes for 2026: extract-then-reason, draft-critique-rewrite, route, map-reduce, and generate-then-gate, each with its failure mode.
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Meta Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready meta prompting recipes: make the model write, critique, rubric, and template your prompts, each with its failure mode. Plus the honest part: when meta prompting just wastes tokens.
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Prompt Injection Defenses That Hold Up (2026)
Four prompt-layer defenses against prompt injection that measurably help, three that are theater, and the one architecture rule that actually keeps you safe. With paste-ready prompts and each failure mode.
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Claude Tag in Slack: 3 Prompt Patterns That Ship + 2 Failure Modes (June 2026)
Three production prompt patterns for Anthropic's Claude Tag in Slack channels, plus two failure modes that bite in week one. June 2026.
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Claude Structured Output: 3 Prompt Recipes That Ship (June 2026)
Three production-grade Claude structured output recipes for June 2026. Invoice extraction on Sonnet 4.6, support triage on Haiku 4.5, NL to SQL on Opus 4.7. Real cost per call. Three failure modes the docs do not warn you about.
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