Prompt Engineering Methodologies – July 2025 Update

This monthly series tracks meaningful updates to prompting methodology and what to adopt now.

What’s New in July

• Lightweight CoVe variants for faster verification
• Structured rubric prompts for evals across models
• Improved multimodal instructions for Gemini 1.5

Copy‑Paste Templates

Rubric‑Guided Output
Role: Senior reviewer
Rubric: correctness, coverage, clarity (0–5)
Task: {{your task}}
Return: answer + rubric with short justifications

Fast CoVe
Answer the question.
Then list 3 checks that could falsify your answer and whether they pass.
Revise if a check fails.

Adoption Advice

• Use CoVe on factual content; keep checks minimal to control cost
• Standardize rubrics across teams to compare outputs
• For Gemini, include explicit multimodal cues

See also: Prompt Frameworks 2025 and Advanced Prompting Techniques 2025. Return next month for the August 2025 update.