Comprehensive practical guide to getting the most out of Anthropic’s Claude 4 and similar instruction-tuned, safety-focused models. Covers system message strategies, few-shot and chain-of-thought techniques, prompt libraries, structured API usage, tool/function calling, and safety guardrails. Contains production integration recipes, evaluation frameworks, and case studies in summarization, code generation, support automation, and research assistance.
Who this book is for- Engineers and prompt engineers using Claude or comparable instruction-tuned models.
- Product teams integrating Claude for automation, summarization, and conversational agents.
- Researchers comparing prompting paradigms and safety strategies.
What the reader will learn- Best practices for system prompts, role conditioning, and persona setting.
- Few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured prompting patterns for reliability.
- Safety checks: guardrails, rejection sampling, and adversarial testing.
- Integration patterns: tool calling, API orchestration, and evaluation metrics.
- Use-case recipes: summarization, code assistant, research augmentation, and customer support.
- Monitoring and A/B testing prompts in production for continuous improvement.