damngoodprompts

Prompting Guides

One page per model family, kept current as guidance changes. Every guide separates model routing, GUI behavior, API behavior, and examples.

ChatGPT / GPT (OpenAI)

Current guidance for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family and GPT-6 Astra across ChatGPT and the API, including when to use Sol, Terra, Luna, or Astra.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

Claude (Anthropic)

How to route work across Claude Fable, Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, and how Claude.ai behavior differs from API prompting.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

DeepSeek

How to prompt DeepSeek reasoning and open-weight models without carrying forward unsupported R1-era assumptions.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

Gemini (Google)

Current guidance for Gemini 3.x, including 3.8 Flash (new stable default), 3.7 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Pro preview, and multimodal variants.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

Gemma (Google)

How to prompt Gemma 4 open models for local, edge, multimodal, and agentic workflows without treating them like Gemini in the browser.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

GLM (Z.ai)

How to prompt Z.ai's GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash for agentic coding, reasoning, and multimodal builds through the API or local serving.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

Grok (xAI)

How to prompt Grok for coding, real-time research, X-aware workflows, and API use without confusing chat behavior with search/tool behavior.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

Llama (Meta)

How to prompt Meta Llama open-weight models, with attention to local deployment, multimodal variants, and chat-template correctness.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

Mistral

How to prompt Mistral models across Vibe, Studio/API, open-weight variants, coding, OCR, and agentic workflows.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

Muse Spark (Meta)

How to prompt Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 for agentic coding and long-horizon knowledge work in Muse Code and the Meta Model API.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026

Perplexity

Perplexity prompting is search prompting: split durable instructions from the concrete query, and route API work through the Agent API and Search API surfaces.

Last reviewed: September 14, 2026