Prompt Engineering
Advanced patterns/35 min

Prompt Chaining

Break large tasks into smaller calls so each step can be inspected, reused, and tested.

Lesson

Prompt chains turn one risky giant prompt into a sequence of smaller decisions. Each step has a clear input, output, and quality check.

Chains are easier to debug because you can see where the system misunderstood, hallucinated, or lost important context.

Objectives

Split a task into stages.
Pass structured outputs between stages.
Find where a chain can fail.

Practice

Map a research-to-summary workflow into three model calls.
Define the output schema for each step.

Next action

Design a three-step chain for summarizing meeting notes.