Prompt chaining
Prompt chaining is connecting several prompts so that the output of one becomes the input of the next, forming a pipeline.
Chaining makes each step inspectable, which is why it is easier to debug than one enormous prompt. The main risk is error propagation: a mistake in step one is treated as fact by every step after it, so validation between steps matters.
Related terms
- Prompt decomposition
- Prompt decomposition is breaking one complex request into a sequence of smaller prompts, each handling a single step and feeding the next.
- AI agent
- An AI agent is a language model given tools and a goal, which decides for itself which actions to take and in what order until the goal is met.
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