--- title: Best Practices in Prompt Engineering for AI Agents in... description: A practical guide to using AI agents effectively for Solidity smart contract auditing. Covers why generic prompts fail in security contexts, and provides... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-in-prompt-engineering-for-ai-agents-in-solidity-smart-contract-auditing-fnylkymvi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Practices in Prompt Engineering for AI Agents in Solidity Smart Contract Auditing | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to using AI agents effectively for Solidity smart contract auditing. 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Covers why generic prompts fail in security contexts, and provides concrete prompt patterns for vulnerability detection, attack scenario generation, audit checklists, finding verification, and report generation. Advocates a structured three-agent pipeline (Planner, Analyzer, Reviewer) that integrates static analysis tools like Slither, Mythril, and Foundry alongside LLM reasoning. Key principles include giving the model an adversarial role, always injecting protocol context and invariants, enforcing structured JSON output, separating attack modeling from remediation, and requiring human review for Critical/High findings. Also warns against prompt injection via code comments and over-trusting 'no findings' results. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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