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Prompt Engineering Guide
Prompt Engineering Guide collects lessons, papers, notebooks, and resources on prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI agents.

About Prompt Engineering Guide
Prompt Engineering Guide is an open-source GitHub repository from DAIR.AI that collects guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources on prompt engineering, context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI agents. Its written guides cover topics such as LLM settings, prompt elements and design tips, zero-shot and few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought prompting, self-consistency, prompt chaining, tree of thoughts, ReAct and graph prompting, alongside application-focused material on classification, coding, evaluation, image generation, mathematics and summarization. The repository notes that the most up-to-date guides live on the separate promptingguide.ai website, and that the material is available in 13 languages. DAIR.AI also offers self-paced courses under its Academy and services such as corporate training, consulting and talks, which are separate from the repository content.
Key features
- Guides on prompting techniques including zero-shot, few-shot and chain-of-thought
- Sections covering retrieval-augmented generation and AI agents
- Papers, lessons, notebooks and lecture materials collected in one repository
- Application guides for classification, coding, evaluation and summarization
- Guide material available in 13 languages
- Separate web version hosted at promptingguide.ai
- Open-source repository with publicly browsable guides, papers, notebooks and resources
- Broad topic coverage spanning prompting techniques, RAG, AI agents and applications
- Guide material is translated into 13 languages, with more translations welcomed
- The repository states that the most up-to-date guides are on the separate promptingguide.ai site
- Hands-on courses sit under DAIR.AI Academy rather than in the repository and require enrollment
- Corporate training, consulting and talks are offered as separate services, not as repository content
Prompt Engineering Guide at a glance
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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