Prompt Chaining: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready prompt chaining recipes for 2026: extract-then-reason, draft-critique-rewrite, route, map-reduce, and generate-then-gate, each with its failure mode.
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Five paste-ready prompt chaining recipes for 2026: extract-then-reason, draft-critique-rewrite, route, map-reduce, and generate-then-gate, each with its failure mode.
Five paste-ready meta prompting recipes: make the model write, critique, rubric, and template your prompts, each with its failure mode. Plus the honest part: when meta prompting just wastes tokens.
Four prompt-layer defenses against prompt injection that measurably help, three that are theater, and the one architecture rule that actually keeps you safe. With paste-ready prompts and each failure mode.
Five copy-paste few-shot prompting recipes for July 2026: lock output format, tone, labels, and edge cases. Each with the prompt and the exact case where it breaks.
Three production-grade Claude structured output recipes for June 2026. Invoice extraction on Sonnet 4.6, support triage on Haiku 4.5, NL to SQL on Opus 4.7. Real cost per call. Three failure modes the docs do not warn you about.