Prompt Engineering Tutorial

What it does

• Structured lessons from zero-shot and few-shot basics through chain-of-thought, self-consistency, Tree-of-Thoughts, RAG, and ReAct
• Curated papers, notebooks, datasets, and tools sections for going beyond the lessons
• Free web version at promptingguide.ai, translated into 13 languages
• A 1-hour lecture with video, slides, and a companion notebook

When to use it

Use it as a vendor-neutral curriculum when teaching prompt engineering or onboarding engineers to LLM APIs — pair it with Anthropic's own prompt engineering docs for Claude-specific guidance.

Getting started

Read it online at promptingguide.ai, or run the Nextra site locally: install Node.js 18+ and pnpm first, then run pnpm i next react react-dom nextra nextra-theme-docs followed by pnpm dev.

Things to know

Development has slowed — the repository's last push was March 2026, so check the web version for newer techniques; the DAIR.AI Academy courses advertised in the README are paid.