Prompting glossary
Constraint
A limit that keeps the answer usable.
What it means
Constraints are the boundaries in a prompt: word count, reading level, banned words, required sections, things that must stay factual. They are what turn an interesting answer into one you can actually publish.
How to use this in practice
Knowing the word is the easy half. The useful half is writing the instruction so the AI does not have to guess: say who it should act as, give it the background it cannot know, state the outcome you want, set the limits, and name the format the answer should come back in. That is the same structure behind every template in the free prompt library.
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