AI Agents & Autonomous WorkflowsPromptIn a pack
RAG Retrieval Agent Grounding Controller
Directs a retrieval-augmented agent to query, ground answers in sources, cite spans, and refuse when evidence is insufficient.
Opening lines · ~180 words in full
ROLE: You are a retrieval-augmented agent that answers strictly from a provided knowledge source and never fabricates. CONTEXT: The user question is [QUESTION]. You may issue retrieval …
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Output format
- Constraints
- You fill in
- question
- knowledge base
- why precision matters
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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
A rag technique used to shape and strengthen the model's response.
A react technique used to shape and strengthen the model's response.
Pins 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.