Prompt chaining

A reliability technique for prompt chains: have each step emit its result in a defined structure — a labelled list, a table, JSON — that the next step consumes, instead of piping loose prose from one prompt into the next and hoping it parses.

A chaining principle: break a large task into steps at its natural seams — points where the job genuinely changes, like extract → analyse → draft → refine — so each prompt does one thing well and hands a clean result to the next.