System Prompts and Structured Output

The prompt engineering and structured output domain of the Claude Certified Architect Foundations blueprint: explicit system-prompt criteria, few-shot examples, tool-based structured output, validation and retry loops, batch processing, and multi-pass review.

3 sections ยท 9 lessons

Course outline

Instruction Design

  1. Explicit Criteria Over Vague Rules
  2. When False Positives Bleed
  3. Four Parts of a System Prompt
  4. Rescuing a Distrusted Review Bot

Structured Output

  1. Examples Carry the Reasoning
  2. Shape Versus Force
  3. Nullable Fields Stop Fabrication
  4. Designing an Extraction Schema

Production Loops

  1. Retry With Error Feedback
  2. Batch or Synchronous
  3. Independent Instances and Passes
  4. Triaging a Failed Batch Run

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