Mastering Claude 4: Practical Workflows, Prompting and Tools for Anthropic’s Next-Gen Models: Prompt design, safety best practices, system prompts, ... Engineering, and Practical Integrations) - Softcover

CROSSWELL, OWEN

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798266081628

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Comprehensive practical guide to getting the most out of Anthropic’s Claude 4 and similar instruction-tuned, safety-focused models. Covers system message strategies, few-shot and chain-of-thought techniques, prompt libraries, structured API usage, tool/function calling, and safety guardrails. Contains production integration recipes, evaluation frameworks, and case studies in summarization, code generation, support automation, and research assistance.
Who this book is for

• Engineers and prompt engineers using Claude or comparable instruction-tuned models.
• Product teams integrating Claude for automation, summarization, and conversational agents.
• Researchers comparing prompting paradigms and safety strategies.

What the reader will learn

1. Best practices for system prompts, role conditioning, and persona setting.
2. Few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured prompting patterns for reliability.
3. Safety checks: guardrails, rejection sampling, and adversarial testing.
4. Integration patterns: tool calling, API orchestration, and evaluation metrics.
5. Use-case recipes: summarization, code assistant, research augmentation, and customer support.
6. Monitoring and A/B testing prompts in production for continuous improvement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798266081628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 257