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Prompting
Meta-Prompting
Using a model to write or improve the prompts given to a model.
Definition
Meta-prompting treats prompt construction as a task the model itself can handle. A capable model is given a high-level goal and asked to produce a detailed prompt or system instruction for achieving it, which is then run — often against a smaller, specialized model. This supports automatic prompt optimization, generating examples, and building domain-adapted instructions without manual iteration. It underlies programmatic prompting tools such as DSPy.