engineer-prompt - Choose and apply effective prompt techniques
Diagnose prompt failures and recommend the smallest effective technique, with a concrete Markdown rewrite when useful.
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Updated: 2026-10-16Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Diagnose prompt failure modes
- Assess whether prompts are sufficient
- Recommend minimal techniques
- Explain technique tradeoffs
- Rewrite prompts in Markdown
- Compare prompting approaches
Inputs
- Existing prompt
- Task description
- Reference documents
- Output requirements
- Workflow constraints
Outputs
- Task-shape diagnosis
- Technique recommendation
- Tradeoff explanation
- Markdown prompt rewrite
Requirements
- Python 3.11 or later
- VS Code agent environment