PromptsApr 6, 2026·3 min read

Awesome Prompt Engineering — Papers, Tools & Courses

Hand-curated collection of 60+ papers, 50+ tools, benchmarks, and courses for prompt engineering and context engineering. Covers CoT, RAG, agents, security, and multimodal. Apache 2.0.

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  1. Browse the collection: github.com/promptslab/Awesome-Prompt-Engineering
  2. Start with survey papers for a broad overview
  3. Explore specific topics: reasoning, RAG, agents, security
  4. Try the listed tools for your prompt workflow

Intro

Awesome Prompt Engineering is a hand-curated collection of 60+ research papers, 50+ tools, benchmarks, courses, and community resources for prompt engineering and context engineering, with 5,700+ GitHub stars and Apache 2.0 license. It covers the full spectrum from chain-of-thought reasoning and automatic prompt optimization to adversarial prompting, multimodal generation, and AI agent architectures. Unlike tutorial-style guides, this is a research-oriented resource that tracks the cutting edge of how we interact with and control LLMs.

Best for: researchers and advanced practitioners who want to stay current with prompt engineering research and tools. Covers: papers, tools, APIs, benchmarks, courses, communities. License: Apache 2.0.


Awesome Prompt Engineering — Resource Categories

Research Papers (60+)

Category Topics
Surveys Comprehensive reviews of prompt engineering
Optimization Automatic prompt tuning, DSPy, soft prompts
Reasoning Chain-of-thought, tree-of-thoughts, self-consistency
Compression Reducing prompt length while preserving quality
Agents ReAct, tool use, multi-agent orchestration
Multimodal Text-to-image, text-to-audio, vision prompting
Security Prompt injection, jailbreaks, defense techniques

Tools (50+)

Category Examples
Prompt Management Promptfoo, Braintrust, Helicone
Evaluation DeepEval, Ragas, Phoenix
Agent Frameworks LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen
Optimization DSPy, TextGrad, OPRO
Testing Garak, Promptfoo red-team

Benchmarks & Datasets

  • Standard evaluation benchmarks for LLM capabilities
  • Prompt robustness datasets
  • Domain-specific test suites

Courses & Tutorials

  • University courses on prompt engineering
  • Industry training programs
  • Hands-on workshops and notebooks

FAQ

Q: What is Awesome Prompt Engineering? A: A research-oriented collection of 60+ papers, 50+ tools, benchmarks, and courses covering prompt engineering from fundamentals to cutting-edge research.

Q: Is it free? A: Yes, Apache 2.0 license. Individual papers and tools have their own licenses.

Q: How is this different from the Prompt Engineering Guide? A: The Guide is tutorial-focused (learn prompt engineering). This collection is research-focused (track cutting-edge papers, tools, and benchmarks).


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Source & Thanks

Maintained by PromtsLab. Licensed under Apache 2.0.

Awesome-Prompt-Engineering — ⭐ 5,700+

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