AI Agents & Autonomous WorkflowsPromptPlan
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 …
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You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~183 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 test runs a month.
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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. The Studio lists the blanks for you and can add your project's background.
- 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.
- Not sure what it produces? Give it a test run in the Studio first, then refine with 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.