Anthropic's Prompt Engineering is a comprehensive and practical guide to mastering the art and science of prompt engineering for large language models, specifically tailored to Anthropic's Claude models. Written by Gajanan Rajput, this book takes you from foundational principles to advanced techniques, enabling you to craft effective prompts that deliver accurate, relevant, and high-quality AI responses.
Whether you're a beginner exploring prompt structure or a professional building complex, multi-step prompts for real-world applications, this book provides hands-on lessons, annotated examples, and exercises to sharpen your skills. You'll learn to:
Design clear and structured prompts
Assign roles and personas using system prompts
Separate data from instructions with XML tags
Control output formats and guide response structure
Use few-shot examples and chain-of-thought prompting
Minimize hallucinations and build complex workflows
Ideal for AI developers, data scientists, researchers, and product teams, this guide empowers you to harness the full potential of Claude in your projects and workflows.