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Prompting
Prompt Chaining
Splitting a task into steps where each prompt's output feeds the next.
Definition
Prompt chaining breaks a complex task into a sequence of simpler prompts, where the output of one step is formatted and fed into the next. Isolating each stage improves reliability over a single giant prompt, allows different instructions per step, and makes debugging easier by pinning failures to a specific stage. It is a basic building block of most LLM pipelines, workflows, and agents.