Prompt Chaining

Sections: Workflow • Patterns • Use Cases

Workflow Break a big task into smaller prompts, passing intermediate results along a chain.

Patterns

• Decompose–Solve–Integrate
• Refine–Validate

Use Cases

• Complex content generation
• Multi-step data extraction

When to Use

• Multi-step tasks (data extraction, report building)
• Breaking complex workflows into stages

Effectiveness

• Improves modularity and clarity
• Easier debugging of each step

Example Snippet

"Step 1: Extract customer names from text.\nStep 2: Count occurrences.\nStep 3: Summarize top five customers."

Simple Explanation

Prompt chaining means splitting a big job into smaller prompts and passing results along.