Prompt Chaining For Developers
# Example 4: Prompt Chaining Across A Development Task
## Principle
One large prompt often combines incompatible goals:
- discover the codebase
- decide on a plan
- edit code
- generate tests
- write documentation
That increases hallucination risk because the model is rewarded for completeness before certainty.
## Safer Prompt Chain
### Prompt 1: Discoverywhen to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo dhirajxai/prompt-engineering-foundations (no explicit license). A "Prompt Chaining For Developers" 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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dhirajxai/prompt-engineering-foundations · no explicit license
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