State-of-the-Art Prompt Engineering for AI Agents

A comprehensive guide to modern prompt engineering for AI agents -- covering system prompts, tool use patterns, chain-of-thought reasoning, evaluation strategies, real-world deployment patterns, and the emerging power of meta-prompts that generate optimized prompts automatically.

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