Phase 0: How AI Actually Reads Your Words · 35 min · ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini (any)

Anatomy of a Great Prompt

Six parts. You don't need all six every time. But knowing them means you know what you're leaving out.

Real-world application: What changes when you use this: you can look at any prompt and immediately identify what's missing — and you know exactly what to add to fix it.

What you will learn

Identify the six parts of a great prompt: role, context, task, format, examples, constraints
Understand which parts are essential and which are optional depending on the task
Diagnose what's missing from a prompt that's producing bad output
Write a complete six-part prompt for a real task

Introduction

Anatomy of a Great Prompt

Objective

Take a real prompt, diagnose which of the six parts it's missing, rewrite it with at least 4 parts, and compare outputs.

Six parts. You don't need all six every time. But knowing them means you know what you're leaving out.

Unlock the full lesson

You've read the first 2 sections. The rest of this lesson covers The Problem, The Concept, Build, Check Yourself, Key Terms & Next — plus a hands-on lab, quiz, and project artifact.

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