Prompting techniques

99 techniques taken from published research. Each page says what the technique does, when it actually helps, gives a prompt you can paste, and links the paper it came from. Numbers appear only where we checked them against the source.

Goal-Reversed Prompting arXiv:2503.06139 Requirement-Oriented Prompt Engineering (ROPE) arXiv:2409.08775 Rebuttal Prompting arXiv:2502.08177 Hard-to-Easy Instruction Ordering arXiv:2502.17204 Structured Persuasion Prompting arXiv:2511.20867 Anti-Bias Prompting arXiv:2506.12338 Polymorphic Prompt Assembling (PPA) arXiv:2506.05739 Prompt Sensitivity Analysis arXiv:2503.08688 Tabular Prompting arXiv:2412.17189 MetaPrompting (Structured Reasoning) arXiv:2311.11482 Structured Prompting with Iterative Refinement arXiv:2402.08855 Debate Prompting arXiv:2502.12921 Multi-Turn Conversational Prompting arXiv:2511.03247 Debugging Prompts Framework arXiv:2502.09101 Multilingual Ensemble Prompting arXiv:2504.11833 Debate-to-Detect (D2D) / Multi-Agent Structured Debate arXiv:2505.18596 Dual-Level Adaptive Prompting (GALA) arXiv:2504.01278 Blueprint Prompting arXiv:2506.08669 Partial Compliance Instruction arXiv:2506.00195 Agentic Prompting arXiv:2502.20383 Social Engineering Prompting arXiv:2506.04572 Modular Definition Prompting arXiv:2506.18576 Visionary Tuning (Self-Playing & Self-Improving) arXiv:2503.03967 Multi-Aspect Cueing (MAC) arXiv:2504.02984 Meta-Thought Prompting arXiv:2503.13447 BloomWise Prompting arXiv:2410.04094 Layered Context Prompting arXiv:2504.08856 Structured Prompting with Negative Constraints arXiv:2511.04573 RESS (Decomposition-then-Synthesis) arXiv:2505.15071 MTR (Multi-Turn Reasoning) Framework arXiv:2505.17123 Sandwich Prompting arXiv:2503.00061 MLPrompt (Multilingual Prompting) arXiv:2409.11056 Guardrail Prompting arXiv:2503.15793 Generative Self-Aggregation (GSA) arXiv:2503.04104 Feature-Based Prompting (Structured Analysis) arXiv:2504.08804 StateAct (Self-Prompting + Chain-of-States) arXiv:2410.02810 Persuasive Adversarial Prompts (PAP) arXiv:2501.18632 Implicit Criteria Prompting arXiv:2504.15219 Context Injection arXiv:2505.18882 Moralized Multi-Step Prompting arXiv:2411.16730 LLM-Oriented Context Structuring arXiv:2504.09798 First-Principles Reasoning Prompting arXiv:2506.14948 Atomic Fact Extraction and Verification (AFEV) arXiv:2506.07446 Dynamic Enhancement Chain (DEC) arXiv:2506.17692 Thinking Token-based Test-time Scaling (TTTS) arXiv:2506.02867 Context Repetition (CoRe) arXiv:2410.07103 Mutual Constraint Prompting arXiv:2412.13612 R+S Prompt Structuring arXiv:2504.19793 Context-Augmented Prompting arXiv:2506.09992 Confirmation Bias Mitigation Prompting arXiv:2506.12301 Structured Data Prompting arXiv:2504.07087 Temporal Generalization Prompting arXiv:2405.08460 ReMem (Reason-Memory) / ExpRAG arXiv:2511.20857 Context-Guardrail-Reflection Prompting arXiv:2504.13897 Reasoning through Perspective Transition (RPT) arXiv:2501.09265 Constitutional Prompting arXiv:2506.06391 QA-Prompting (Question-Answering Prompting) arXiv:2505.14347 Dual Directional Prompting (DDP) arXiv:2403.08743 Hypotheses-driven Prompting arXiv:2505.00038 Negative Example Prompting (AnaQuest) arXiv:2505.05815 Cross-Model Distillation arXiv:2505.22037 Robust Prompting Framework arXiv:2506.09443 Structured Prompt Rewriting (Narrative/Role-Driven Escalation) arXiv:2504.16489 Time-Constrained Reasoning (Coarse-to-Fine & Answer-and-Verify) arXiv:2504.14350 Hierarchical Prompting Framework arXiv:2406.12644 English as a Lingua Franca for LLM (Pre-translation) arXiv:2403.10258 Bottom-up Reasoning arXiv:2505.19676 PromptPRF (Rank-aware Prompting) arXiv:2503.14887 Prompt-based Extraction (Cloze Prompting with Verbalizer) arXiv:2410.16325 Stated Answer vs. Revealed Belief Prompting arXiv:2406.14986 Prompt-Constructor (Component-Based Prompting) arXiv:2406.14117 Structured Instruction Injection arXiv:2504.16125 Cognitive Prompting Framework arXiv:2506.13464 Divide and Conquer Prompting arXiv:2506.16411 Parallel Multilingual Input (PMI) arXiv:2403.09073 Sentiment-Aware Prompting arXiv:2503.13510 LLM as an Interviewer (Iterative Feedback & Refinement) arXiv:2412.10424 Prompt as Virtual Neural Network Configuration arXiv:2503.20561 Multi-Agent Orchestration (User-Driven) arXiv:2511.15755 Self-Doubt Prompting arXiv:2505.23480 Plan-Execute Prompting arXiv:2501.18099 System 1/System 2 Prompting arXiv:2404.17218 Confidence Reasoning (CR) arXiv:2410.14675 Joint Task Prompting arXiv:2409.00222 Context & Feedback Management arXiv:2506.15624 Chain of Density (CoD) arXiv:2506.14192 RICE Framework (Role, Instruction, Context, Examples with Rationale) arXiv:2502.04916 Thought Anchors Prompting arXiv:2506.19143 Goal-Aware Multi-Perspective Prompting arXiv:2503.23363 SELF-PERCEPT arXiv:2505.20679 Human-Agent Collaborative Scaffolding arXiv:2502.09787 Think & Verify arXiv:2503.17885 Context-Chained Prompting arXiv:2506.17318 Instruct of Reflection (IoRT) arXiv:2503.00902 Nugget-based Decomposition and Verification arXiv:2504.15068 Structured Prompting with External Tooling (SPET) arXiv:2501.12399 Counterfactual Consistency Prompting arXiv:2502.11425 Functional Prompting arXiv:2506.20793 Multi-Stage Information Search (ISP) arXiv:2512.00313