Three companies, one message

Adam Welcome to What Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Say About Prompting. This course is part of Complete AI Training; you'll find the full library at complete A I training dot com. It takes six short chapters.

Paula Anthropic, OpenAI and Google all publish prompting guides, and they agree more than you would expect. This part explains what a prompt framework is, then shows where the official advice points.

Adam A prompt is the request you type into an AI tool such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. A prompt framework is a reusable structure for that request. Think of it as a short checklist of the parts a good prompt contains, usually named with an acronym so it is easy to remember.

Paula Why bother with a checklist. The AI fills in whatever you leave out with generic guesses. A framework makes sure you include the parts that change the answer, such as who it is for, what you want to achieve and the format you need back.

Adam Frameworks also make your prompts repeatable. You fill the same parts each time, save the prompt as a template and share it with colleagues. The next person gets the same quality without starting from a blank box.

Paula One warning. Frameworks are not magic words. The value comes from the detail you put in each part. They help most when a request is complex or open to interpretation. A quick, simple question can stay short.

Adam There are well over sixty named frameworks, and most of them remix the same ingredients: role, task, context, audience, format, constraints and examples. So do not worry about collecting them all. Learn the ingredients and you can read any of them.

Paula Here is a worked example. An office manager needs to compare two suppliers. She uses a simple structure: who she is, the task, the context, and the format she wants. Watch how each part changes the answer.

Adam Now the same prompt in a real chat window. Notice that the request is short but complete. The reply comes back in the shape she asked for, so she can forward it to her director without rewriting it.

Paula So where does this course fit. Official guides is the prompting advice published by the companies that make the AI. The frameworks you may have seen build on the same principles. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google each publish prompting guides, and none of them prescribes a single rigid formula.

Adam They agree on clarity, context, examples and defining the outcome, then letting the model reason. Their newest guides say modern models need fewer rules and more judgement. Anthropic cut over 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt for Claude 5 models with no measured loss.

Paula That is the message of this part. Three companies, one direction: say what good looks like, give the context, then trust the model to work. In the next parts we take each company's advice in turn, starting with Google.

Adam Your turn. Pick one task you do every week and write it as a prompt with four parts: who the AI should be, the task, the context and the format. Save it as a template for next time.