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Types of LLM prompts

Types of LLM prompts

Feb 16, 20261 min read

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/context-engineering-coding-agents.html

Instructions: Prompts that tell an agent to do something, e.g. “Write an E2E test in the following way: …” Guidance: (aka rules, guardrails) General conventions that the agent should follow, e.g. “Always write tests that are independent of each other.”

Part of Context Engineering. See also LLMs, Coding agents.


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