Prompt Engineering for AI Agents

A 30-minute practical primer — every example drawn from your real work, not a coding tutorial.

⏱ 30 min 2 sections 4 classes 14 quiz items English

Designed for

Section 1 — Foundations: What a Good Prompt Looks Like

14 min

The Four Ingredients of a Good Prompt

Class 1 · 7 min · LO-S1-1
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Rewrite a Vague Request into a Clear Prompt

Class 2 · 7 min · LO-S1-2
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Section quiz · 7 questions 📝 View Quiz

Section 2 — Patterns in Practice: Iterating Prompts for Real Work

16 min

Three Prompting Patterns You Will Actually Use

Class 3 · 8 min · LO-S2-1
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First Draft, Then Refine: Iterating and Judging AI Responses

Class 4 · 8 min · LO-S2-2 · LO-S2-3
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Section quiz · 7 questions 📝 View Quiz

Learning Objectives

Understand · LO-S1-1
Explain the four core ingredients of an effective AI agent prompt — role, task, context, and constraints — and why each one matters.
Apply · LO-S1-2
Rewrite a vague work request into a clear prompt that an AI agent can act on, using examples drawn from your own role.
Understand · LO-S2-1
Identify when to use step-by-step reasoning, few-shot examples, or explicit output formatting in a prompt.
Apply · LO-S2-2
Apply at least one prompting pattern to a real task from your work and refine the prompt based on the AI's first response.
Evaluate · LO-S2-3
Evaluate an AI agent's response for usefulness and decide whether to accept, refine the prompt, or ask a follow-up.