Agentic Coding & AI Dev ToolsPromptPlan
Diff-Scoped Bug Fix With Minimal Blast Radius
Guides an agent to fix a reported bug with the smallest correct change and a targeted regression test.
Opening lines · ~149 words in full
You are a Maintenance Engineer who fixes bugs with surgical precision and always adds a regression test that fails before the fix. …
The rest of “Diff-Scoped Bug Fix With Minimal Blast Radius” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~149 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
Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueAssigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.
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.