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Codex Prompt Template for Defining Goals and Constraints
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the codex docs on /goal are also helpful for improving your prompting in general: * define your desired end state * verified by specific evidence * preserving constraints * use these inputs, tools, and boundaries * after each iteration, here's how to choose the next best action * when you're blocked here's how to report it it's simple in concept, but requires discipline to actually answer what you want in each of the 6 areas --- here's the template from the codex docs: /goal <desired end…
dotta @dotta5d ago
looking at pstack by @poteto and it's a goldmine of prompt engineering even her example prompt is the best template i've seen of the four things you need to give your agent in a single prompt: * a goal * a checkable finish condition * the evidence you want to see * constraints I'm always surprised by how short pro's prompts are. It's less about length, but ensuring your hitting those four points. Here's the prompt: /poteto-mode fix the duplicate notification after retry. Reproduce it first. Done means retrying produces exactly one notification and normal delivery still works. Show the failing and passing evidence. Leave a PR for review. So simple define what you want, how to know when you're done, what you want to see, and what you shouldn't do I guarantee you this isn't obvious to most prompters here's the sauce https://github.com/paperclipai/poteto-stack