About
This skill provides Anthropic's prompt and context engineering best practices for developers working with Claude. It helps optimize AI agent performance through principles like clarity, structure, and progressive discovery while treating context as a finite resource. Use it for guidance on prompt engineering, context management, and improving signal-to-noise ratio in your LLM interactions.
Quick Install
Claude Code
Recommendednpx skills add danielmiessler/PAIPlugin -a claude-code/plugin add https://github.com/danielmiessler/PAIPlugingit clone https://github.com/danielmiessler/PAIPlugin.git ~/.claude/skills/promptingCopy and paste this command in Claude Code to install this skill
GitHub Repository
Frequently asked questions
What is the prompting skill?
prompting is a Claude Skill by danielmiessler. Skills package instructions and resources that Claude loads on demand, so Claude can perform prompting-related tasks without extra prompting.
How do I install prompting?
Use the install commands on this page: add prompting to Claude Code as a plugin, or clone its repository into your skills directory, then restart Claude so it picks up the skill.
What category does prompting belong to?
prompting is in the Other category, tagged ai.
Is prompting free to use?
Yes. prompting is listed on AIMCP and free to install. It runs inside Claude, so no separate service account is required to use the skill itself.
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