Recipes
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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Routing
Cheap-then-deep routing: Haiku 4.5 first, Opus 4.7 only when it earns it
Route every call to Haiku 4.5 first. Ask it one thing: can you answer this with high confidence? If yes, ship its answer. If no, replay the same request to Opus 4.7. You pay premium tokens only on the hard 10–20%. Net cost drops ~70% with no quality loss on easy traffic.
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