Prompt Engineering

Kind: technique

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: architecture:prompt-engineering

Severity: contextual

Scope: model-backed system, language-model system, application

Canonical: Ontology

A technique for writing model instructions as versioned templates with fixed parameters and an evaluation for each change.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Model Safety and before Model Drift Monitoring.

Requires

• Model Inference

Reinforces

• Model Evaluation
• Reproducibility

Enables

• Structured, Versioned Prompts

Conflicts with

• Prompt Sprawl

In tension with

• Robustness

Tensions

• Prompt Engineering / Robustness

Violated by

• Prompt Sprawl

Refactored by

• Prompt Registry

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Model Architecture

Linked from

• The author is probabilistic
• Anti-patterns
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Model Architecture
• Model Architecture
• Quality Attributes
• Severity levels
• The resolutions