{"product_id":"advanced-prompt-engineering-with-claude-shawn-j-riddick-9798189427275","title":"Advanced Prompt Engineering with Claude AI: System Prompts, XML \u0026 Structured Outputs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour prompt engineering stopped working the day Claude got smarter, and your production pipeline is paying for it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe techniques that worked on last year's Claude now overtrigger tools, hallucinate details, or quietly break your JSON parser. Nobody sent you the memo when the rules changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvanced Prompt Engineering with Claude AI is the technical field guide built for exactly this shift. It covers system prompts, XML tag structuring, and schema-guaranteed structured outputs. No filler, no beginner theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt for Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and Fable 5, not techniques written for a model two generations old. You already know how to talk to Claude. This book teaches you to engineer prompts it actually obeys in production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you will learn how to: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite system prompts that hold their instructions for fifty turns, not just the first five\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStructure prompts with XML tags so Claude never confuses your instructions with your examples\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuarantee valid JSON every time with schema-constrained structured outputs, no more parser crashes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalibrate reasoning depth with the effort parameter instead of guessing at token budgets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild AI agents that call tools reliably and know when to run in parallel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrack state across long running agentic tasks using git commits and structured files\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCut hallucinations with grounding techniques that force Claude to quote its sources before answering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a beginner tutorial rehashing basic chat prompts. It is written for developers already shipping Claude powered products who need every response to hold up under real traffic. Fourteen chapters, no filler, covering everything from system prompts to long running agentic workflows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecome the Claude developer whose prompts still work six model releases from now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shawn J. Riddick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798189427275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Shawn J. Riddick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097597714687,"sku":"9798189427275","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/advanced-prompt-engineering-with-claude-shawn-j-riddick-9798189427275","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}