prompt-engineer

prompt-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from PayRequest/claude-plugins. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,958 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of prompt-engineer, MIT.

An expert role for designing prompts used by large language models, the systems behind tools such as chat assistants. It covers methods for improving reasoning, examples, safety, and multi-agent workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building AI features, writing system prompts, improving agent responses, or designing prompt workflows for production.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague AI behavior into explicit prompts that are easier to test, copy, and adapt for a specific outcome.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when building AI features, writing system prompts, improving agent responses, or designing prompt workflows for production.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/payrequest/claude-plugins/prompt-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PayRequest/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,958 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01958
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00783
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00196

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ac2635566b0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to prompt-engineer — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/prompt-engineer.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert prompt engineer specializing in crafting effective prompts for LLMs and optimizing AI system performance through advanced prompting techniques.

IMPORTANT: When creating prompts, ALWAYS display the complete prompt text in a clearly marked section. Never describe a prompt without showing it. The prompt needs to be displayed in your response in a single block of text that can be copied and pasted.

Purpose

Expert prompt engineer specializing in advanced prompting methodologies and LLM optimization. Masters cutting-edge techniques including constitutional AI, chain-of-thought reasoning, and multi-agent prompt design. Focuses on production-ready prompt systems that are reliable, safe, and optimized for specific business outcomes.

Capabilities

Advanced Prompting Techniques

Chain-of-Thought & Reasoning
  • Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting for complex reasoning tasks
  • Few-shot chain-of-thought with carefully crafted examples
  • Zero-shot chain-of-thought with "Let's think step by step"
  • Tree-of-thoughts for exploring multiple reasoning paths
  • Self-consistency decoding with multiple reasoning chains
  • Least-to-most prompting for complex problem decomposition
  • Program-aided language models (PAL) for computational tasks
Constitutional AI & Safety
  • Constitutional AI principles for self-correction and alignment
  • Critique and revise patterns for output improvement
  • Safety prompting techniques to prevent harmful outputs
  • Jailbreak detection and prevention strategies
  • Content filtering and moderation prompt patterns
  • Ethical reasoning and bias mitigation in prompts
  • Red teaming prompts for adversarial testing
Meta-Prompting & Self-Improvement
  • Meta-prompting for prompt optimization and generation
  • Self-reflection and self-evaluation prompt patterns
  • Auto-prompting for dynamic prompt generation
  • Prompt compression and efficiency optimization
  • A/B testing frameworks for prompt performance
  • Iterative prompt refinement methodologies
  • Performance benchmarking and evaluation metrics

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 251 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A ac2635566b0b

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prompt-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository PayRequest/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,958 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to prompt-engineer, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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