AI engineering glossary · Prompt context engineering
What is quote-first prompting?
Quote-first prompting: A technique for long-document tasks where the model is asked to first extract the exact quotes relevant to the question and only then answer using those quotes. It anchors the answer to the source and makes checking easier.
Quote-first prompting: an example
Asked about a termination clause, the model lists two verbatim sentences inside <quotes> tags, then answers based on them.
Related terms
More Prompt context engineering terms
- ReAct prompting
- Reasoning effort
- Recency bias in prompts
- Refine summarisation
- Reflexion
- Repetition penalty
- Rephrase and Respond
- Role prompting
Where you learn it
Quote-first prompting is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.