Reference
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 "I"
Techniques
In-Context Learning (ICL)
The capability of a pretrained LLM to learn a task at inference time from examples provided in the prompt -- no weight updates, no fine-tuning.
SecurityIndirect Prompt Injection
An attack where malicious instructions are embedded in content the model fetches (webpages, documents, emails) rather than typed directly by the attacker into the prompt.