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title: "Prompt Engineering Patterns - Air Market"
description: "You wrote a prompt, it works sometimes, and you do not know which part to change. This helps you rework it, build reusable templates, and debug what is going wrong. Reach for it when a prompt is goin…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/prompt-engineering-patterns"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Prompt Engineering Patterns

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Prompt Engineering Patterns

Get a prompt that behaves the way you meant it to

## What this does

You wrote a prompt, it works sometimes, and you do not know which part to change. This helps you rework it, build reusable templates, and debug what is going wrong. Reach for it when a prompt is going into something real and "good enough" is not.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Improve a prompt that is not performing
- Design a prompt template you can reuse
- Work out why a prompt is misbehaving

## Information

**Prompt Engineering Patterns at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 80 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/d6837ae274c2cd817acad3fb98f193a4390a4c3e/plugins/llm-application-dev/skills/prompt-engineering-patterns) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 24,328, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Prompt Engineering Patterns and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Prompt Engineering Patterns's check was run against**

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| Commit | d6837ae274c2cd817acad3fb98f193a4390a4c3e |
| Content hash | 4860dffeadae9573a9f80cdb2d045a169544ce09aaf6c59118a8d6755716b905 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/d6837ae274c2cd817acad3fb98f193a4390a4c3e/plugins/llm-application-dev/skills/prompt-engineering-patterns/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Prompt Engineering Patterns](/security/prompt-engineering-patterns)

## About Prompt Engineering Patterns

This covers the work of making prompts better: optimizing one that underperforms, designing templates, writing prompts more deliberately, and debugging when a prompt does not do what you expected.

It includes named approaches like chain-of-thought, structured prompting and few-shot prompting, along with more advanced patterns aimed at prompts running in production applications rather than one-off experiments.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- assets/few-shot-examples.json - data
- assets/prompt-template-library.md - reference
- references/chain-of-thought.md - reference
- references/details.md - reference
- references/few-shot-learning.md - reference
- references/prompt-optimization.md - reference
- references/prompt-templates.md - reference
- references/system-prompts.md - reference
- scripts/optimize-prompt.py - script

## Questions

### Is Prompt Engineering Patterns safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Prompt Engineering Patterns and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit d6837ae274c2, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/prompt-engineering-patterns.

### How do I install Prompt Engineering Patterns?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/prompt-engineering-patterns on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/d6837ae274c2cd817acad3fb98f193a4390a4c3e/plugins/llm-application-dev/skills/prompt-engineering-patterns. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/prompt-engineering-patterns>