P01 Underspecified Instruction
---
id: ppl-d18-c01-p01
title: "Underspecified Instruction"
type: pattern
status: stub
version: 0.1.0
domain: "Anti-Patterns & Failure Modes"
category: "Ambiguity, Vagueness & Underspecification"
subcategory: "Underspecified Instruction"
tags: []
created: 2026-01-05
updated: 2026-01-05
---
# Underspecified Instruction
## Definition
## Intent
## Mechanism
## Prompt Skeleton
## Example
## Failure Modes
## Tagswhen to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo CevenJKnowles/prompt-pattern-library (MIT). A "P01 Underspecified Instruction" 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.
tags
roleplaycommunitygeneral
source
CevenJKnowles/prompt-pattern-library · MIT