1Introduction: The Emergence of a Foundational Discipline
12The Rise of Autonomous Systems: Agentic and Graph RAG
2Part 1: The Foundations of AI Communication
13Securing the Prompt: Techniques for Robust and Safe AI Interaction
3The Art and Science of Instruction: Core Principles of Prompting
14Part 4: Specialized and Frontier Applications
4Learning in Context: Zero-Shot, One-Shot, and Few-Shot Prompting
15The Adaptive Communicator: Personalization and Multimodal Prompting
5Structuring Thought: An Introduction to Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting
16Prompting for Innovation: Recursive Improvement and Controlled Hallucination
6Part 2: Advanced Reasoning and Optimization
17Engineering for Society: Prompting in Public Sector Transformation
7The Evolution of Reasoning: Beyond CoT to Auto-CoT and Self-Consistency
18Part 5: The Strategic Landscape of Prompt Engineering
8The New Frontier of Efficiency: Chain of Draft and the Critique of Verbose Reasoning
19Prompting for the Planet: AI in Environmental Monitoring
9From Manual Art to Automated Science: Modern Prompt Optimization Frameworks
20The Human-Robot Interface: Prompting for Embodied AI
10Part 3: System-Level Prompting and External Knowledge
21The Future of the Field: Enterprise Governance, Ethics, and the Evolving Role of the Prompt Engineer
11Grounding Models in Reality: An Introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
22About Author
