Level 3 of 14 · about 3 weeks

Prompting and workflows

Write prompts that behave the same way tomorrow, and learn the five workflow shapes that solve most problems without an agent.

Modules

1. 1

   Prompt anatomy

   Role, task, context, constraints, output format and input: build prompts from parts you can test

   Core 4 parts · about 4 hours

2. 2

   Examples and reasoning prompts

   Few-shot examples, step-by-step reasoning, verification and voting, and when each one helps

   Core 5 parts · about 5 hours

3. 3

   The five workflow patterns

   Prompt chaining, routing, parallelisation, orchestrator-workers and evaluator-optimiser

   Core 5 parts · about 6 hours

4. 4

   Workflow or agent?

   How to decide, and why the simpler option usually wins

   Core 4 parts · about 3 hours

5. 5

   Prompt versioning and tests

   Keep prompts in Git, write regression cases, and review a prompt change like code

   Core 4 parts · about 5 hours

6. 6

   Defensive prompting basics

   Separating instructions from untrusted text, and limiting what a tricked model can do

   Common 4 parts · about 4 hours

7. 7

   Debugging prompts

   Read failures in bulk, change one thing at a time, and tell real problems from noise

   Common 4 parts · about 4 hours