AI Glossary
Prompt Chaining
What is Prompt Chaining?
A technique in which the output of one LLM prompt is used as the input to a subsequent prompt, breaking complex tasks into a sequence of smaller, more manageable steps. Prompt chaining improves reliability on tasks that are too complex for a single prompt to handle well. It is a foundational pattern in agentic AI workflows.
Example in practice
A researcher who first prompts an AI to extract key claims from a paper, then passes those claims to a second prompt for fact-checking against a knowledge base, is using prompt chaining to build a two-step verification workflow.
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