Prompt Recipes
Prompt Compression: Recipes That Ship (2026)
Six copy-paste prompt compression moves for 2026 with real before and after token counts. Cut manners, redundancy, and agent history. No library required.
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Prompt Recipes
Few-Shot Prompting Examples That Ship (2026)
Six copy-paste few-shot prompting examples that ship: classification, JSON extraction, tone matching, refusal, edge-case teaching, and format locking.
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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)
Five 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 Extended Thinking: 3 Recipes That Ship (July 2026)
Extended thinking changed in July 2026: on Claude Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8 you use adaptive thinking and effort, not budget_tokens. Three recipes and the gotchas.
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Claude Tool Use: 3 Recipes That Ship + 2 Failure Modes (June 2026)
Three production Claude tool use recipes tested on Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.7, and Haiku 4.5 with current pricing. Plus the two failure modes nobody warns you about. June 2026.
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