# Anthropic's prompt engineering docs

> Anthropic's guide to prompting best practices for Claude models

- Category: Guides & reading (`guides`)
- Tags: `learning`
- Official: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompt-templates-and-variables
- Wunderlust: https://wunderlust.xyz/r/anthropic-prompt-engineering
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- Added: 2026-11-05

## What it is

Anthropic documentation on prompt engineering. The cited address redirects to the "Prompting best practices" guide, which covers model-specific guidance, general techniques, tool use, thinking and agentic systems.

## What it’s for

For consulting current techniques and recommendations when writing prompts for Claude.

## Benefits

- Model-specific guidance
- General techniques: clarity, examples and structuring with XML
- Sections on tool use, thinking and agents
- Migration guidance between model generations

## Caveats

- The original address (prompt-templates-and-variables) redirects to another documentation page.
- The documentation is updated and may have changed since 2025.

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