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)
RTFGemini for Google Workspace prompting guide (PDF)Google
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)
RACEExperiment with promptsUK Government AI Knowledge Hub (DSIT)
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
GCSEExperiment with promptsUK Government AI Knowledge Hub (DSIT)
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
PICSEExperiment with promptsUK Government AI Knowledge Hub (DSIT)
PICSEAbout the AI Knowledge HubUK Government (DSIT)
TELeRTELeR: A General Taxonomy of LLM Prompts for Benchmarking Complex TasksSantu & Feng, Findings of the ACL: EMNLP 2023
TELeRTELeR (preprint)arXiv
ReActReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language ModelsYao et al., ICLR 2023 (arXiv)
ReActReAct project pageYao et al.
CREATEThe CREATE FrameworkDave Birss (Prompt Advantage course)
CREATEHow to write an effective AI prompt using the CREATE frameworkUniversity of Pittsburgh
CREATEHow to craft effective prompts using the CREATE frameworkNYU School of Professional Studies
PREPAREDThe perfect ChatGPT prompt doesn’t existDan Fitzpatrick, Forbes (10 August 2024)
PREPAREDAI literacy: promptingRadboud University Library
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)
Qwen 3.8Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B 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