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Prompt Engineering & Deterministic Agents

Master prompt architecture: Chain-of-Thought, ReAct autonomous loops, DSPy programmatic compilation, and structured JSON output validation.

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1 · Core Architecture

Prompt components, system instructions, temperature, and few-shot formatting.

  1. 1. Structured Prompt Architecture & Few-Shot EncodingsRole, Task, Context, Constraint, and Output Schema (RTCC) prompt design patterns.
    8m · 2 MCQs

2 · Reasoning & Logic

Chain-of-Thought (CoT), self-consistency sampling, and Tree-of-Thoughts.

  1. 2. Chain-of-Thought & Self-Consistency SamplingStep-by-step cognitive scaffolding, intermediate scratchpads, and majority vote decoding.
    9m · 2 MCQs

3 · Tool-Calling & ReAct Loops

ReAct autonomous loops, schema definitions, error handling, and state machines.

  1. 3. Autonomous Tool Calling & The ReAct FrameworkThought-Action-Observation loops, function schemas, and bounded execution graphs.
    10m · 2 MCQs

4 · DSPy & Guardrails

DSPy automated prompt compilation, semantic guardrails, and prompt injection defense.

  1. 4. Programmatic Optimization with DSPy & Defense Against InjectionCompiling prompt signatures with teleprompters, metric evaluators, and sanitizing untrusted inputs.
    10m · 2 MCQs

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