Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Docs: Claude in Context
Anthropic's official prompt engineering docs are the de facto reference for Claude development: six techniques to scenario templates.
Open the official reference| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Published | 2025-11-05 |
| Official source | Anthropic |
| Topics | #llm · #engineering · #reasoning |
Overview
Anthropic's prompt engineering docs are the standard reference for Claude developers — alongside OpenAI's guide, one of the two major official paradigms. Its strength is scenario-based guidance: role-playing, tool use, and long-context templates.
Six core techniques
- Be clear and direct.
- Use roles and tone.
- Structured output (XML/JSON templates).
- Few-shot examples (1-3 high-quality ones).
- Tool-call design: describe when a tool should be used.
- Long-context strategy: chunking, summarization, retrieval.
Engineering practice
- Version-control your prompts; keep change logs.
- Build an eval set; run it on every prompt change.
- Prefer tool use and structured outputs over longer prompts.
Official source: Anthropic prompt engineering docs.
Sources & Further Reading
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- 🔗 Official source
- 👤 Person: Anthropic
- # Topic: LLMsLLM capabilities, products and best practices
- # Topic: EngineeringAPIs, prompting and system design
- # Topic: ReasoningModel reasoning, chain-of-thought and deep thinking
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