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What is a prompt engineering glossary?

Updated July 21, 2026 · by Pedro

A prompt engineering glossary defines the vocabulary of AI instructions — tokens, context windows, one-shot prompts, roles, constraints, and UI states — so builders and models share the same meaning. This glossary is maintained for tknctrl readers who write prompts for Claude, GPT, Cursor, and v0. Each term links to a short, self-contained definition page built for citation.

All terms

• Token
• Context window
• One-shot prompt
• Role prompt
• Prompt structure
• Prompt engineering
• System prompt
• Temperature
• Hallucination
• Screenshot to code
• Vibe coding
• Cursor rules
• Custom instructions
• Prompt optimizer
• AI prompt builder
• Interaction states
• Constraints
• Token waste
• Few-shot
• Chain of thought

Start with the hubs

After definitions, apply them on AI prompt builder, Cursor structure, and token cost.

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