Manual Stepping
# Manual Stepping
Use when you're debugging a tricky change one line at a time and want the model to apply, test, stop, wait.
## Prompt
I'm going to give you a series of line-level edits to fix a bug. After each edit, run the full test suite. If a test fails, do not apply further edits — just show the failing output. If it passes, wait for my next edit. I'll manually step through the fix. Acknowledge by saying 'Ready for line 1'.
## Source
Personal prompt collection, 2026-06-17.
## Tested with
_(empty)_when to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo WilliamHudspeth/high-output-prompts (no explicit license). A "Manual Stepping" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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codingcommunitydeveloper
source
WilliamHudspeth/high-output-prompts · no explicit license
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