This course is intended to provide you with a comprehensive step-by-step understanding of how to engineer optimal prompts within Claude, using Bedrock.
Last updated 4/5/2026
This course is intended to provide you with a comprehensive step-by-step understanding of how to engineer optimal prompts within Claude, using Bedrock.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
This course is structured to allow you many chances to practice writing and troubleshooting prompts yourself. The course is broken up into 9 chapters with accompanying exercises, as well as an appendix of even more advanced methods. It is intended for you to work through the course in chapter order.
Each lesson has an "Example Playground" area at the bottom where you are free to experiment with the examples in the lesson and see for yourself how changing prompts can change Claude's responses. There is also an answer key. While this answer key is structured for 1P API requests, the solutions are the same.
Note: This tutorial uses our smallest, fastest, and cheapest model, Claude 3 Haiku. Anthropic has two other models, Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus, which are more intelligent than Haiku, with Opus being the most intelligent.
When you are ready to begin, go to 01_Basic Prompt Structure to proceed.
Each chapter consists of a lesson and a set of exercises.
Chapter 1: Basic Prompt Structure
Chapter 2: Being Clear and Direct
Chapter 3: Assigning Roles
Chapter 4: Separating Data from Instructions
Chapter 5: Formatting Output & Speaking for Claude
Chapter 6: Precognition (Thinking Step by Step)
Chapter 7: Using Examples
Chapter 8: Avoiding Hallucinations
Chapter 9: Building Complex Prompts (Industry Use Cases)
Appendix: Beyond Standard Prompting