All sources

Every external source cited anywhere on this site, in one table. Primary vendor documentation and peer-reviewed papers are preferred throughout; where a claim rests on a secondary source, the page says so.

Used onSourcePublisher
RTFPrompt engineering — best practicesOpenAI (Developer docs)
RTFPrompting best practices — Give Claude a roleAnthropic (Claude Platform docs)
TAGPrompting best practices — Add context to improve performanceAnthropic (Claude Platform docs)
TAGPrompt design strategiesGoogle (Gemini API docs)
APEPrompt engineering — best practicesOpenAI (Developer docs)
RACEPrompt design strategiesGoogle (Gemini API docs)
RACEPrompting best practicesAnthropic (Claude Platform docs)
CRAFTPrompting best practices — Structure prompts with XML tagsAnthropic (Claude Platform docs)
CRAFTGemini 3 developer guideGoogle (Gemini API docs)
GCSEGet started writing prompts in Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft Support
GCSEThe building blocks of a good Copilot prompt (quick reference guide, PDF)Microsoft
TCREIGoogle Prompting EssentialsGoogle (via Coursera)
TCREIPrompt design strategiesGoogle (Gemini API docs)
RISENPrompting best practices — Use examples effectivelyAnthropic (Claude Platform docs)
RISENPrompt engineering (how-to guide)Meta (Llama developer docs)
CO-STARHow I Won Singapore’s GPT-4 Prompt Engineering CompetitionSheila Teo, Towards Data Science
CO-STARMastering the art of prompt engineeringGovTech Singapore
CLEARThe CLEAR path: A framework for enhancing information literacy through prompt engineeringLo, L. S. (2023), The Journal of Academic Librarianship 49(4), 102720
CLEARThe CLEAR Path (open-access record)University of New Mexico Digital Repository
OpenAIModel guidanceOpenAI (Developer docs)
OpenAIModelsOpenAI (Developer docs)
OpenAIPrompt engineeringOpenAI (Developer docs)
AnthropicPrompting best practicesAnthropic (Claude Platform docs)
AnthropicModels overviewAnthropic (Claude Platform docs)
GoogleGemini 3 developer guideGoogle (Gemini API docs)
GooglePrompt design strategiesGoogle (Gemini API docs)
GoogleModelsGoogle (Gemini API docs)
GoogleGoogle Prompting EssentialsGoogle (via Coursera)
MetaPrompt engineering (how-to guide)Meta (Llama developer docs)
MetaLlama 4 — model cards and prompt formatsMeta
MetaDeveloper docs and resourcesMeta
MicrosoftGet started writing prompts in Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft Support
MicrosoftThe building blocks of a good Copilot prompt (PDF)Microsoft
xAIModelsxAI / SpaceXAI
xAIReasoningxAI / SpaceXAI
xAIPrompt caching best practicesxAI / SpaceXAI
Mistral AIPrompt engineering best practicesMistral AI
Mistral AIModelsMistral AI
Mistral AIRegional inferenceMistral AI
DeepSeekThinking modeDeepSeek
DeepSeekJSON outputDeepSeek
DeepSeekPricingDeepSeek
DeepSeekPrivacy policyDeepSeek
Few-shot examplesPrompting best practices — Use examples effectivelyAnthropic
Few-shot examplesPrompt design strategiesGoogle
Delimiters and tagsPrompting best practices — Structure prompts with XML tagsAnthropic
Delimiters and tagsGemini 3 developer guideGoogle
System versus user messagePrompt engineering (how-to guide)Meta
System versus user messagePrompt engineeringOpenAI
Structured outputPrompt engineering (how-to guide)Meta
Structured outputPrompt engineeringOpenAI
Chain of thoughtChain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language ModelsWei et al., 2022 (arXiv)
Chain of thoughtThe Decreasing Value of Chain of Thought in PromptingWharton Generative AI Labs
Chain of thoughtGemini 3 developer guideGoogle
Prompt chainingPrompting best practices — Chain complex promptsAnthropic
Self-consistencyPrompt engineering (how-to guide)Meta
Grounding and retrievalPrompt engineering (how-to guide)Meta
Grounding and retrievalGet started writing prompts in Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft
Negative constraintsModel guidanceOpenAI
Negative constraintsPrompting best practices — Add context to improve performanceAnthropic
Meta-promptingA practical guide to building with AIOpenAI
Meta-promptingPrompting best practicesAnthropic
Myths & anti-patternsShould We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt PolitenessYin et al., 2024 (arXiv)
Myths & anti-patternsMind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM AccuracyDobariya & Kumar, 2025 (arXiv)
Myths & anti-patternsPrompting best practices — Give Claude a roleAnthropic
Myths & anti-patternsModel guidanceOpenAI
Myths & anti-patternsThe Decreasing Value of Chain of Thought in PromptingWharton Generative AI Labs
Myths & anti-patternsGemini 3 developer guideGoogle
Myths & anti-patternsA practical guide to building with AIOpenAI
Myths & anti-patternsPrompt engineering — hallucination reductionMeta
Myths & anti-patternsThe CLEAR path (open access)Lo, L. S. (2023)
Reasoning modelsThe Decreasing Value of Chain of Thought in PromptingWharton Generative AI Labs
Reasoning modelsGemini 3 developer guide — thinking_levelGoogle
Reasoning modelsModel guidanceOpenAI
Reasoning modelsPrompting best practices — Thinking and reasoningAnthropic
Reasoning modelsPrompt engineering — chain-of-thoughtMeta
Qwen 3.8Qwen3.8-27B model cardAlibaba (Hugging Face)
Qwen 3.8Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model cardAlibaba (Hugging Face)
DeepSeek V4DeepSeek-V4-Flash model cardDeepSeek (Hugging Face)
DeepSeek V4DeepSeek V4 release noteDeepSeek
GLM-5.xGLM-5.2 model cardZ.ai (Hugging Face)
GLM-5.xGLM-5.3 model cardZ.ai (Hugging Face)
Gemma 4Gemma 4: expanding the Gemmaverse with Apache 2.0Google Open Source Blog
Gemma 4Gemma 4 31B model cardGoogle (Hugging Face)
Mistral 3 / Small 4Mistral Small 4 announcementMistral AI
Mistral 3 / Small 4Mistral Small 4 model cardMistral AI (Hugging Face)
Self-hostingChat templatesHugging Face (Transformers docs)
Self-hostingOptimizing LLMs for speed and memoryHugging Face (Transformers docs)
Self-hostingGemma prompt structureGoogle
Self-hostingGemma model overviewGoogle
Self-hostingReasoning best practicesOpenAI
Self-hostingChain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language ModelsWei et al., 2022 (arXiv)
Self-hostingLost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long ContextsLiu et al., 2023 (arXiv)
Self-hostingStructured outputsOllama
Self-hostingContext lengthOllama
Self-hostingOllama CloudOllama
Self-hostingGBNF grammarsllama.cpp
Self-hostingModel deprecationsOpenAI
Self-hostingArticle 3: DefinitionsEU Artificial Intelligence Act
Self-hostingArticle 4: AI literacyEU Artificial Intelligence Act
Self-hostingOpinion 28/2024 on AI models and GDPREuropean Data Protection Board
Legal & privacyArticle 50: Transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systemsEU Artificial Intelligence Act
Legal & privacyGuidelines on transparency obligationsEuropean Commission