Prompt Design and Evaluation Topics
A self-guided outline of prompt structure, evaluation, and safety.
This page lists topics and examples. It does not provide lessons or promise model behavior. Validate prompts with the model, application, and risk profile you use.
Example topics
Prompt requirements
Specify task, context, constraints, and expected output.
Instruction structure
Separate system instructions, user data, and application controls.
Reasoning patterns
Review prompting approaches and their limitations for a specific model.
Examples
Select representative examples and check their effect on outputs.
Prompt iteration
Use controlled changes and record the resulting behavior.
Output validation
Validate structured outputs with application code and schemas.
Evaluation sets
Build representative test cases and explicit review criteria.
Adversarial testing
Consider prompt injection, untrusted input, and failure handling.
Cost and latency
Measure request size, provider usage, and end-to-end response time.
Maintenance
Repeat evaluations when prompts, models, or application context change.