System Prompt Skeleton

# System Prompt Skeleton

A fill-in-the-blanks scaffold for a production system prompt. Bakes in the five primitives that do the most work: namespace blocks, decision ladders, hard numbers, self-check, and anti-narration.

**How to use:** copy the scaffold below, replace `<YOUR_…>` placeholders, delete sections you don't need, and add domain-specific sections between the marked insertion points. Do not reorder the top-level blocks — their order is load-bearing (see [methodology](../methodology/README.md)).

A worked example using the skeleton lives at [templates/example-customer-support.md](./example-customer-support.md).

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## The scaffold