~/words · 40+ terms · every one with a prompt
AI words, decoded.
Agent. Subagent. MCP. Connector. Plugin. Scrape. Codex. The words engineers throw around, each in a sentence or two, with a prompt you can copy to actually use it.
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01 / the glossary
What it means, and the prompt to use it.
Dates and history are checked against the original sources (listed at the bottom).
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02 / prompts from the people who build AI
What the experts actually say about prompting.
Not our opinion. This is published advice from OpenAI, Anthropic and well-known AI researchers, turned into templates you can copy.
03 / sources
Where this comes from.
Want to go deeper? Paste any of these links into your AI and ask: “Explain this to me in simple words.”
- Attention Is All You Need — Vaswani et al., Google, 2017
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks — Lewis et al., 2020
- Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models — Wei et al., 2022
- ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models — Yao et al., 2022
- Building effective agents — Anthropic, Dec 2024
- How we built our multi-agent research system — Anthropic, June 2025
- Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding — Anthropic, 2025
- Prompt engineering overview — Anthropic docs
- Prompt engineering guide — OpenAI docs
- How to write the perfect AI prompt, according to Greg Brockman — Inc., 2025
- “+1 for ‘context engineering’ over ‘prompt engineering’” — Andrej Karpathy, June 2025
- Introducing the Model Context Protocol — Anthropic, Nov 2024
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code — Anthropic, Feb 2025
- Customize Claude Code with plugins — Anthropic, Oct 2025
- Introducing Agent Skills — Anthropic, Oct 2025
- Introducing Codex — OpenAI, May 2025
- Vibe coding — Wikipedia (term coined by Andrej Karpathy, Feb 2025)