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Prompt Engineering Glossary

Every term you need, with working example prompts and practical notes on when each technique earns its keep.

2 terms starting with "R" in Applied

Reranker

A model that takes a candidate list of retrieved documents and a query, and produces a more accurate ranking -- applied after initial retrieval (BM25, vector, or hybrid) as a second pass.

Applied

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

A pattern where relevant context is retrieved from a knowledge base (vector store, search index, graph) and injected into the prompt before the model generates its answer.