Mind · Reasoning
MetaPrompt
Use prompts to generate or refine other prompts
Definition
Mechanism
A higher-order Meta Prompting technique where prompts are used to generate, refine, or analyze other prompts rather than directly answering questions. The LLM acts as a prompt engineer, creating task-specific prompts from templates or improving existing prompts through critique. Enables reusable prompt templates that generalize across problem categories. It constructs a PromptChain where the output of the first stage is the prompt instruction for the second.
Risks
Failure modes
{{prompt}} Drift
Generated prompts diverge from intent over iterations.
{{meta}}-Complexity
Meta-prompt harder to write than direct prompt.
Overfitting
Generated prompts too specific to examples.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Higher-order abstraction
Infrastructure
Structured instruction to a generative model, optionally role-tagged
Society
Sequential LLM calls with validation gates
Infrastructure
The atomic unit of intent
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference
Signature
Meta(Prompt)