Prompting for Threat Modeling: STRIDE Analysis With an LLM Co-Pilot
Turn architecture diagrams into threat models in 15 minutes
Brian Gagne
CTO of Kief Studio. 20+ years technology consulting. Cisco Certified Ethical Hacker, UPenn AI for Business, Perplexity AI Business Fellow. Builds the tools Qurtoo teaches you to use.
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Writing Incident Response Prompts That Actually Speed Up Triage
Pre-built prompt templates for log analysis, IOC extraction, and timeline reconstruction
Prompt Injection Testing for Production Apps: A Red Team Playbook
16 injection techniques to test before your users find them first
Feedback Loop Prompting: Teach Your Agent to Critique and Retry Its Own Output
The inner-loop pattern that turns a single LLM call into an iterative refinement engine
Multi-Agent Handoff Prompts: How to Write Instructions That Transfer Context Between Agents
The system prompt architecture behind reliable agent-to-agent coordination
Designing Tool-Use Prompts That Don't Hallucinate Tool Calls
Why agents invoke wrong tools and the prompt structure that fixes it
The Plan-and-Execute Pattern: Use a Frontier Model to Plan, a Cheap Model to Execute
Cut your agentic workflow costs by 90% without losing quality
Temperature Is Not a Creativity Dial: What Sampling Parameters Actually Do and When to Change Them
The real mental model for temperature, top-p, and top-k with evidence
The Verification Prompt Pattern: Build Self-Checking Into Every LLM Call
One extra prompt turn that catches hallucinations before they ship
Structured Output Prompting: Force Any LLM to Return Valid JSON Every Time
The schema-first prompting pattern that eliminates parsing failures
Context Engineering Beats Prompt Engineering: How to Design Token Budgets That Actually Work
Stop optimizing words -- start optimizing what the model sees
Roleplay Reversal Prompting: Making the Model You
Roleplay reversal makes the AI the user. You become the machine. It’s one of the best ways to train, test, or simulate real-world usage — especially when you're prototyping LLM interfaces.