Prompting glossary
Prompt chaining
Breaking one big job into ordered steps.
What it means
Prompt chaining runs a project as a sequence: outline first, then draft one section, then edit, then format. Each step gets its own instruction and its own review, which prevents the quality collapse that happens when one giant prompt tries to do everything.
Also called
chained prompts, multi step prompt
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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