---
title: "Prompt Engineering"
description: "Prompt engineering is the practice of structuring the instructions and context you give a language model so it produces reliable, useful output."
canonical: "https://www.whatsnext-ai.com/glossary/prompt-engineering"
---

# Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is the practice of structuring the instructions and context you give a language model so it produces reliable, useful output.

## Definition

It covers how you frame the task, the examples and context you supply, and the guardrails you set. In production it’s less about clever wording and more about a repeatable, tested template that holds up across thousands of real inputs.

## Related

- [Custom AI Development](https://www.whatsnext-ai.com/custom-ai-development)
- [AI Consultancy](https://www.whatsnext-ai.com/ai-consultancy)

## Source

Anthropic — Prompt Engineering Documentation (https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview)