Learning resources
AI Prompting 101
Everything you need to get reliably useful results from AI — in plain language.
The essentials
A prompt is the instruction you give an AI tool. It can be a question, a task, or a detailed brief. The AI uses your words — and only your words — to decide what to produce.
Prompt Mastery Levels
Grow from simple requests to structured, multi-step workflows.
Beginner
- • Say what you want and who it’s for.
- • Fill in every [PLACEHOLDER] before copying.
- • Ask for a specific format: list, table, email, outline.
- • Always read and edit the result.
Intermediate
- • Assign a role: “Act as a senior grant writer…”.
- • Add constraints: length, tone, what to avoid.
- • Provide examples of the style you like.
- • Iterate with follow-up prompts instead of starting over.
Advanced
- • Break big tasks into a chain of prompts.
- • Ask the AI to plan before it writes.
- • Build a quality check into the prompt.
- • Save your best prompts as reusable templates or a custom assistant.
The structure behind every vault prompt
ROLE · OBJECTIVE · CONTEXT · INSTRUCTIONS · CONSTRAINTS · OUTPUT FORMAT · QUALITY CHECK — used where they help, skipped where they don’t.