Prompt Patterns

This website is the companion catalog to the Prompt Patterns book. It captures durable prompt design moves that hold up beyond trial and error, so teams can name what they are doing, discuss it, and reuse it.

What is a prompt pattern? A prompt pattern is a deliberate design move at the prompt level, not a magic phrase, not a framework, and not a model-specific technique. Patterns help you control objective, context, constraints, method, validation, and output structure. The goal is reliability and shared vocabulary, not prompt "tricks" or superficial tuning. Patterns are explainable, composable, and stable enough to use across tasks, teams, and model changes.

This website is the fast visual index to that material. It includes categories, principles, pattern names, diagrams, and one-sentence summaries, designed for scanning and recall. The book contains the full write-ups, examples, variations, and trade-offs, plus guidance on how patterns relate and how to combine them in practice.

Who is this book for? Knowledge workers and builders who use large language models in real work. If you write prompts to analyze information, create artifacts, make decisions, or build LLM powered systems, the patterns are for you.

Created by Bilgin Ibryam, co-author of Kubernetes Patterns and author of Camel Design Patterns.