The template
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Other frameworks
RCTF Framework
Role + Context + Task + Format. The foundation of every good prompt.
🧠Chain of Thought
Force the model to think step by step before giving an answer.
📋Few-Shot Prompting
Give 2-3 examples of input → output before your actual request.
📌XML Tags (Claude-specific)
Claude processes XML tags with higher accuracy. Use tags to separate concerns.
✅Self-Consistency Check
Ask the AI to verify its own output before delivering it.
🚫Negative Prompting
Explicitly state what NOT to do — often more effective than positive instructions.
🎯RGB — Role, Goal, Format
Define the AI role, state the goal, specify the output format. Covers 80% of everyday prompting needs in under 30 seconds.
🔬CRISPE Framework
Capacity, Role, Insight, Statement, Personality, Experiment — for nuanced expert-level responses.
⭐STAR Prompting
Structure your prompt like a behavioural interview answer. Forces specificity about context, need, and desired outcome.
🧅PEEL — Point, Evidence, Explain, Link
Makes AI give structured analytical responses: state a point, support with evidence, explain reasoning, link back to question.
👥Expert Panel Prompting
Ask the AI to simulate a panel of experts with different viewpoints. Forces balanced, multi-perspective analysis.
🚧Constraint Prompting
Tell AI what NOT to do and what hard limits to respect. Constraints fix most quality problems faster than adding more context.
🏛️Socratic Prompting
Instead of asking for an answer, ask AI to ask you questions that reveal gaps in your thinking before giving advice.
⚓Output Anchoring
Give the AI an example of your ideal output before making the request. It mirrors structure, tone, and depth of your anchor.
🔄Iterative Refinement Protocol
Three-pass system: generate, self-critique, refine. The AI critiques its own output then improves it. Dramatically better results.
🧩Task Decomposition Prompting
Ask AI to break complex tasks into steps, confirm the plan with you, then execute step-by-step. Prevents errors on long tasks.
🪜Prompt Ladder
A prompting methodology: start 1-sentence prompt, layer in role, context, format, constraints until quality is right.