A Tutorial on Prompt Engineering: From Messy Thoughts to AI Workflows

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arXiv:2609.22249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper treats prompt engineering as a discipline for turning informal human intent into structured AI work specifications. It develops the practice as a sequence of reusable design moves: define the work, construct only the context the answer depends on, choose a role, or a moderated panel of roles, as an attention lens, and state affirmative quality targets, reserving prohibitions for hard boundaries. To keep prompts lean, it adapts two classi