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prompt_engineer

Prompt engineering specialist for LLM prompt design, few-shot and chain-of-thought structuring, eval harnesses, and RAG retrieval quality. Use when the task requires writing or reviewing prompts, building evaluation datasets, tuning retrieval for a RAG system, or diagnosing

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maestro-orchestrate
45372 skills72 agents4 hooks1 MCP
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> /plugin install maestro@maestro-orchestrator

How it fires

How this agent gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this agent.

Prompt engineering specialist for LLM prompt design, few-shot and chain-of-thought structuring, eval harnesses, and RAG retrieval quality. Use when the task requires writing or reviewing prompts, building evaluation datasets, tuning retrieval for a RAG system, or diagnosing

Agent definition

prompt_engineer.md
name: prompt_engineer
kind: local
description: "Prompt engineering specialist for LLM prompt design, few-shot and chain-of-thought structuring, eval harnesses, and RAG retrieval quality. Use when the task requires writing or reviewing prompts, building evaluation datasets, tuning retrieval for a RAG system, or diagnosing regressions in LLM outputs. For example: designing a classifier prompt with calibrated confidence, writing an eval set for a summarization prompt, or tuning chunk size and reranking in a RAG pipeline."
tools:
  - read_file
  - list_directory
  - glob
  - grep_search
  - write_file
  - replace
  - read_many_files
  - google_web_search
  - write_todos
  - ask_user
  - web_fetch
temperature: 0.3
max_turns: 15
timeout_mins: 5

Agent methodology loaded via MCP tool `get_agent`. Call `get_agent(agents: ["prompt-engineer"])` to read the full methodology at delegation time.

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Maestro is a multi-agent development orchestration platform with 39 specialists, an Express path for simple work, a 4-phase standard workflow for medium and complex work, persistent session state, and standalone

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