Prompting and context design · MLD-0161
Chain-of-thought prompting
Prompting for intermediate reasoning steps before or alongside an answer.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Request a worked solution for a reasoning problem.
Original caveat
A written rationale need not faithfully reveal the model's internal computation.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Inference · Evaluation.
Tags: SLM · LLM · NLP.
Aliases: CoT prompting.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- Anthropic: Building effective agents ↗ · Reference link
- Hugging Face: chat templates ↗ · Reference link
- Anthropic: Effective context engineering for AI agents ↗ · Reference link
- Transformers glossary ↗ · Consulted
- Original reference URL ↗