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Prompt Chaining: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready prompt chaining recipes for 2026: extract-then-reason, draft-critique-rewrite, route, map-reduce, and generate-then-gate, each with its failure mode.
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Meta Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready meta prompting recipes: make the model write, critique, rubric, and template your prompts, each with its failure mode. Plus the honest part: when meta prompting just wastes tokens.
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Prompt Injection Defenses That Hold Up (2026)
Four prompt-layer defenses against prompt injection that measurably help, three that are theater, and the one architecture rule that actually keeps you safe. With paste-ready prompts and each failure mode.
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Few-Shot Prompting Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five copy-paste few-shot prompting recipes for July 2026: lock output format, tone, labels, and edge cases. Each with the prompt and the exact case where it breaks.
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Claude Extended Thinking: 3 Recipes That Ship (July 2026)
Extended thinking changed in July 2026: on Claude Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8 you use adaptive thinking and effort, not budget_tokens. Three recipes and the gotchas.
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Claude Prompt Caching: 3 Recipes That Pay Off, 2 That Lose Money (June 2026)
Three Claude prompt-caching recipes with real cost math for Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.7, and Haiku 4.5. Plus two patterns where caching quietly costs you 25% more than not using it.
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Claude Structured Output: 3 Prompt Recipes That Ship (June 2026)
Three production-grade Claude structured output recipes for June 2026. Invoice extraction on Sonnet 4.6, support triage on Haiku 4.5, NL to SQL on Opus 4.7. Real cost per call. Three failure modes the docs do not warn you about.
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