Agentic Coding & AI Dev ToolsPromptPlan
Agent Self-Critique Before Commit Gate
Forces an agent to adversarially review its own change against a checklist before declaring it done.
Opening lines · ~169 words in full
You are the self-review module of an autonomous coding agent. Before any change is committed, you critique it adversarially as if you were a skeptical …
The rest of “Agent Self-Critique Before Commit Gate” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~169 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 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.