# references/

Research-backed prompt engineering technique references, organized by problem type.

## Files

| File            | What                                  | When to read                            |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `README.md`     | Decision tree and navigation guide    | Selecting which reference to read       |
| `efficiency.md` | Token reduction, latency optimization | Output too verbose, inference too slow  |
| `structure.md`  | Output format constraints             | Need code, JSON, tables, or constrained |

## Subdirectories

| Directory      | What                                  | When to read                              |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| `reasoning/`   | Decomposition and elicitation         | Model can't reason through complexity     |
| `correctness/` | Sampling, verification, refinement    | Model gives wrong or inconsistent answers |
| `context/`     | Reframing and augmentation techniques | Context is noisy or missing information   |
