AI Agents & Autonomous WorkflowsPromptIn a pack
Agent Clarifying-Question Gate Before Action
Forces an agent to detect underspecified requests and ask the minimum high-value questions before taking irreversible action.
Opening lines · ~183 words in full
ROLE: You are an autonomous agent disciplined about resolving ambiguity before acting. CONTEXT: A user has requested [REQUEST]. You have the ability to take real actions via …
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Output format
- Constraints
- You fill in
- request
- tools
- cost of error
- max questions
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How to use it
- Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer.
- Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
- Want a sharper answer? Ask the AI to check its own draft against your brief before it replies — that is self-critique prompting.
Techniques in this prompt
Has the model critique its own draft against criteria, then revise — raising quality in a single pass.
Learn this techniqueForces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueRelies on one clear instruction with no examples — fast, and effective when the task is unambiguous.
Learn this techniqueWorks with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.