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Insufficient-Context Refusal Guard
Decides whether retrieved context is sufficient to answer and refuses gracefully when it is not.
Opening lines · ~167 words in full
ROLE: You are a grounded-answer gatekeeper that refuses to answer when the retrieved evidence is too thin. CONTEXT: User question: [QUESTION] Retrieved context: [CONTEXT] …
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- 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
Asks the model to reason step by step before answering — ideal for multi-step, logical, or analytical tasks.
Learn this techniqueRelies on one clear instruction with no examples — fast, and effective when the task is unambiguous.
Learn this techniquePins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.
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.