From b3247d0b1aaf73cae6068e42e3df26b256d9008e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Jennings Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:03:27 -0500 Subject: feat: clean-room synthesis ā€” prompt-engineering skill MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Distilled from NeoLab customaize-agent:prompt-engineering rubric (GPL-3.0 source; clean-room, no prose reused). ~17 KB NeoLab version trimmed to tighter ~430 lines focused on what's genuinely non-obvious: - Four prompt-type classification (discipline-enforcing / guidance / collaborative / reference), with explanations for each so the user knows what they're picking. Used in both design and critique modes. - Seven persuasion principles (Meincke et al. 2025, Nā‰ˆ28,000), with by-type matrix. Notably flags Liking as actively harmful for collaborative prompts (breeds sycophancy in reviews/critiques). - Degrees-of-freedom axis (high/medium/low) matched to task fragility. - Context-window-as-shared-resource framing. - Brief reference only for classical techniques (few-shot, CoT, system prompts, templates) ā€” widely documented elsewhere, not re-taught. - Explicit ethics test for persuasion use. - Design-mode vs critique-mode workflows. - Anti-patterns list covering sycophancy-by-default, hedging-on- discipline-prompts, authority-stack-on-guidance, high-freedom-on- fragile-tasks. Landscape: no prompt-engineering skill exists in Anthropic's official repo, wshobson/agents, or the major community skill collections. Real gap. Makefile SKILLS extended; global symlink installed. --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Makefile') diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 940e705..eed34ae 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SKILLS_DIR := $(HOME)/.claude/skills RULES_DIR := $(HOME)/.claude/rules SKILLS := c4-analyze c4-diagram debug add-tests respond-to-review review-pr fix-issue security-check \ arch-design arch-decide arch-document arch-evaluate \ - brainstorm codify root-cause-trace five-whys + brainstorm codify root-cause-trace five-whys prompt-engineering RULES := $(wildcard claude-rules/*.md) LANGUAGES := $(notdir $(wildcard languages/*)) -- cgit v1.2.3