Prompt
The text instructions an LLM receives to generate its response. Well-designed, they make all the difference.
A prompt is the text given to an LLM as input. It can be a simple question or a long instruction with context, examples, constraints, and expected output format. "Prompt engineering" is the discipline of designing effective prompts: in a production system, the difference between a vague prompt and a well-crafted one is the difference between a useless AI and one that delivers consistent value. At Spiralway we treat prompts as code: versioned, tested, and refined with real usage metrics.