Reference
Prompt Engineering Glossary
Every term you need, with working example prompts and practical notes on when each technique earns its keep.
4 terms starting with "C"
Techniques
Chain-of-Thought (CoT)
Prompting the model to produce intermediate reasoning steps before its final answer, improving accuracy on multi-step problems.
AppliedChunking
Splitting a document into smaller pieces before embedding and indexing -- so retrieval returns coherent, focused passages instead of entire docs.
AgenticContext Engineering
The practice of deciding what goes into an LLM's context window, in what order, and in what form -- so the model has exactly the signal it needs and none of the noise.
DevelopmentContext Window
The maximum number of tokens (input + output combined) a model can process in a single request. Content past this limit is truncated or requires chunking.