Prompt
An instruction or question given to an AI model. Quality determines output quality.
Why it matters
The prompt is the user interface for AI. Specific prompts get precise results.
In practice
Our CLAUDE.md is a mega-prompt: it tells Claude Code our architecture, conventions, skills, and quality standards.
Related terms
Context Engineering
The practice of shaping and managing information fed to an AI model for optimal results.
Chain of Thought
Prompting technique that encourages the AI to reason step-by-step before answering.
Few-Shot Learning
A model's ability to learn new tasks from just a few examples without retraining.
Prompt Injection
An attack where external content hijacks an agent into acting against its instructions.