Reasoning Prompts prompt templates
Chain-of-thought, self-check and root-cause prompts for problems that need a correct answer, not a plausible one.
2 templates in this category.
Step-by-step math with self-check.
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Root-cause reasoning with hypothesis ranking.
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Formulas that pair with this category
- CO-STAR — Any LLM task where business context matters; default for the Master Engineer.
- RTF — Quick, bounded requests; function-calling prompts.
- CRISPE — Creative writing, strategy, brainstorming, marketing.
- TAG — Crisp one-shot tasks; agent instructions.
- Few-shot — Format-sensitive output, classification, style mimicry.
- Chain-of-Thought — Math, logic, multi-step reasoning; improves accuracy on hard tasks.