Agent-Skills.md

Agent Skills: Prompt Optimization

Analyze and improve existing prompts for better performance

UncategorizedID: fusengine/agents/prompt-optimization

Repository

fusengine/agents
fusengineLicense: MIT
7

Install this agent skill to your local

pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/fusengine/agents/tree/HEAD/plugins/prompt-engineer/skills/prompt-optimization

Skill Files

Browse the full folder contents for prompt-optimization.

Download Skill

Loading file tree…

plugins/prompt-engineer/skills/prompt-optimization/SKILL.md

Skill Metadata

Name
prompt-optimization
Description
"Analyze and improve existing prompts for better performance. Use when: auditing an existing prompt for clarity, structure, or completeness issues, fixing vague instructions, or producing a before/after optimization report."

Prompt Optimization

Skill for analyzing and improving existing prompts.

References

  • common-problems.md - Load when: diagnosing a vague or ambiguous prompt — 5 before/after examples (vague instructions, missing context, undefined format, no error handling, weak emphasis)
  • improvement-techniques.md - Load when: strengthening a prompt with Chain-of-Thought, few-shot examples, or reinforced guardrails
  • scorecard-template.md - Load when: writing the before/after optimization report to hand off

Optimization Workflow

1. ANALYZE current prompt
   ↓
2. IDENTIFY issues
   ↓
3. APPLY corrections
   ↓
4. VALIDATE improvement
   ↓
5. DOCUMENT changes

Analysis Checklist

Clarity

  • [ ] Unambiguous instructions?
  • [ ] Clearly defined objective?
  • [ ] Precise vocabulary?

Structure

  • [ ] Well-delimited sections?
  • [ ] Logical order?
  • [ ] Clear hierarchy?

Completeness

  • [ ] Output format defined?
  • [ ] Error cases handled?
  • [ ] Examples if needed?

Guardrails

  • [ ] Explicit limits?
  • [ ] Forbidden behaviors listed?
  • [ ] Appropriate security?

For common problem patterns with before/after fixes, see common-problems.md. For techniques to strengthen a prompt (CoT, examples, guardrails), see improvement-techniques.md.

Forbidden

  • Never change the original meaning of the prompt
  • Never add unrequested features
  • Never remove existing guardrails
  • Never make the prompt longer without justification