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PROMPT ENGINEERING GUIDE

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# Prompt Engineering Guide

This guide provides detailed information about using the prompt engineering features in the Prompt Cookbook CLI.

## Table of Contents
- [Overview](#overview)
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [Techniques](#techniques)
- [Evaluation Metrics](#evaluation-metrics)
- [Best Practices](#best-practices)
- [Examples](#examples)

## Overview

Prompt engineering is the practice of designing and optimizing prompts to get better results from language models. This CLI tool provides four powerful techniques:

1. **Single-Shot Prompting**: Learn from one example
2. **Meta-Prompting**: Generate optimized prompts
3. **Chain-of-Thought**: Encourage step-by-step reasoning
4. **Few-Shot Prompting**: Learn from multiple examples

## Getting Started

### Basic Command Structure

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo shazm12/prompt-cookbook-cli (no explicit license). A "PROMPT ENGINEERING GUIDE" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.