The practice of shaping the input to an LLM — instructions, examples, format constraints — to elicit reliable output.
prompting
Prompt Engineering
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Tools that implement Prompt Engineering
Humanloop
Evaluation · Platform (any LLM)
8.2
Prompt management + evals for collaborative AI teams.
Paid· From $200/mo teamprompt managementteam collab
Claude Code
Coding · Claude (Opus / Sonnet / Haiku)
8.2
Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads, edits, and ships code from the terminal, IDE, or web.
Freemium· Pro $17-20/mo; Max 5x $100/mo; Max 20x $200/mo; API meteredagentic-codingcodebase-refactor
PromptLayer
Evaluation · Platform (any LLM)
7.9
Lightweight prompt logging + management for OpenAI/Claude apps.
Freemium· Free; Pro from $50/moprompt loggingversioning
Cursor
FeaturedCoding · Claude / GPT (configurable)
9.5
AI-first VS Code fork — chat, edit, and agentic coding in one IDE.
Freemium· Free hobby; Pro $20/mo; Business $40/mocodingrefactors