Lesson 7 of 10
Prompt Chaining
Break a complex task into small prompts when one prompt has too many competing goals.
Active reading
Understand the idea
Each step should have one clear job and pass a useful artifact to the next step. Chaining makes intermediate results visible, which makes mistakes easier to find and correct.
Example
Step 1 extract facts → Step 2 classify them → Step 3 draft the final response from only the approved facts.
Practice
Apply this lesson to one real task you already have, then write down how you would verify the result.
Common mistake
Using five chained prompts when one clear prompt would already be reliable.
Key takeaway
Chain prompts to isolate uncertainty, not to make a simple task look complicated.