prompt-engineering

prompt-engineering is a skill for Claude Code from breethomas/bette-think. It costs 79 tokens per session (2,431 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for improving prompts, the instructions given to an AI system. It covers creating system prompts, reviewing prompts, and assessing how well they work in production AI features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to optimise prompts, design system prompts, review existing instructions, and discuss prompt-engineering practices.
Why use it?
It helps make AI instructions clearer and identify why a prompt may produce unreliable results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the bette-think plugin — 25 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to optimise prompts, design system prompts, review existing instructions, and discuss prompt-engineering practices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/breethomas/bette-think/prompt-engineering
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add breethomas/bette-think --skill prompt-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/breethomas/bette-think

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bette-think, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 7 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for prompt-engineering

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,431 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 unknown No closer match found 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 $0.00079 $0.02431
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00972
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00243

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 56bc0f03dfe3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-engineering 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.

plugins/bette-think/skills/prompt-engineering/SKILL.md · 341 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 341 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 56bc0f03dfe3

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prompt-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository breethomas/bette-think (16 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,431 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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