Instruction Design
Specifying the output, constraints the model cannot infer, delimiters, ordering, length, and a worked rewrite.
Examples, and When They Stop Helping
What examples actually do, the decision rule for using them, how many, and where they start costing more than they return.
Eliciting Reasoning
What survived the arrival of reasoning models, what did not, and why verification against an external oracle is the only part that holds.
Output Contracts
Three levels of enforcement, the measured cost of a schema on reasoning, schema design, validation in depth, and retrying well.
Assembling Context
More context is not better, and it is measured. Signal-to-noise as the metric, retrieval's limits, and a context-budget pattern.
Turning a Prompt Into an Artifact
The threshold at which a prompt becomes an artifact, how it sits on disk, templating without injection, what to log, and who owns it.