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Prompt architecture

The production-grade concerns around prompts as architectural artefacts — template assembly, versioning, registry management, injection defense, and structured-output schemas.

What this means in practice

Distinct from prompt engineering (craft-level) because prompt architecture governs how prompts behave at scale, across models and tenants, over time.

Synonyms

production prompt architecture , prompt engineering at architecture level

See also

  • Prompt template — A versioned, parameterized representation of a prompt — with placeholders for user input, retrieved context, and dynamic state — enabling reuse, testing, and audit.
  • Structured output — Output formatted to match a declared schema — JSON with a JSON Schema, function-call arguments, or grammar-constrained text — rather than free text.

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