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Applied Prompt Patterns

The Playbook for Prompt Engineers Who Want This Week Better

Ready-to-adapt prompt patterns organized by job function, not technique — writing, research, analysis, decisions, extraction, planning, learning, and iteration. Each pattern ships with its failure mode. Reference Prompt Engineering Mastery when you need the craft theory underneath.

10 lessons~62 min total

Lessons are shown in recommended order. Complete them in sequence for the best experience — or jump to any lesson.

Lesson 760·9 min read

The Operator's Playbook: From Craft to Application

This track is not another pass at prompt theory — it's a job-function playbook. Eight lessons, each one loaded with 3-5 patterns you can run on today's actual work.

Lesson 761·6 min read

Writing & Editing Patterns

Five copy-and-run patterns for turning a rough draft into something you'd actually send — each one named, each one paired with the specific way it fails.

Lesson 762·5 min read

Research & Synthesis Patterns

Five patterns for turning scattered sources into a synthesis you can actually stand behind — including the specific ways triangulation and steelmanning quietly fail.

Lesson 763·5 min read

Analysis & Data Reasoning Patterns

Five patterns for pressure-testing a conclusion before you act on it — assumption audits, base rates, segment breakdowns, sensitivity checks, and forcing analysis into an action.

Lesson 764·7 min read

Decision Support Patterns

Four patterns for using AI to pressure-test a decision before you commit to it — weighted options, premortems, reversibility checks, and second-order effects, each with the specific way it fails.

Lesson 765·7 min read

Summarization & Extraction Patterns

Four patterns for compressing unstructured text into something usable — layered summaries, null-disciplined field extraction, meeting-to-actions tables, and executive distillation — plus the specific way each one silently fails.

Lesson 766·7 min read

Planning & Project Breakdown Patterns

Four patterns for turning a rough goal into an executable plan — the milestone ladder, risk-weighted sequencing, a definition-of-done generator, and a dependency mapper — each with the specific way it goes wrong.

Lesson 767·6 min read

Learning & Explanation Patterns

Five patterns for using AI to actually learn something — or to explain something you already know to someone who doesn't. Each ships with the specific way it fails.

Lesson 768·5 min read

Iteration Loops: Critique-and-Refine Patterns

Prompt Engineering Mastery gave you the Critic and Refine patterns. This lesson makes them operational — five ways to run a critique-and-refine loop on today's actual work without it running forever.

Lesson 769·5 min read

Capstone: Building Your Personal Pattern Library

The track capstone: assemble everything from Lessons 761-768 into one reusable personal pattern library, proven against real tasks from your actual job this week — not hypothetical examples.