When Optimizing Prompts

Use this skill when a prompt already exists and the problem is inconsistency, hallucination, brittleness, or cost.

Workflow

• Start from concrete failure cases.
• Change one lever at a time.
• Keep a test set for future comparisons.

Deliverables

• An improved prompt plus changelog.
• A compact regression test set.

Guardrails

• Do not optimize by endlessly adding instructions.
• Do not claim success without tying it to failure cases.