AI Glossary · Prompt Engineering
Structured Output
Forcing model output into a schema (JSON, XML, tool call) so downstream code can consume it reliably.
Related terms in Prompt Engineering
- Few-Shot Prompting
- Including a small number of input–output examples in the prompt to demonstrate the desired format and reasoning.
- Instruction Tuning
- Post-training on instruction–response pairs so the base model follows natural-language instructions reliably.
- Meta-Prompting
- Using an LLM to draft, critique or optimize prompts for another LLM — a scalable alternative to hand-crafting.
- Persona Prompting
- Assigning a role ("You are a senior claims adjuster…") to steer tone, depth and vocabulary of the output.
- Prompt Chaining
- Decomposing a task into a sequence of prompts where each step's output feeds the next; the poor-man's agent.
- Prompt Engineering
- The practice of designing inputs (instructions, examples, structure) that reliably elicit the desired model behavior.