AI Agents & Autonomous WorkflowsPromptIn a pack
Self-Critique Verification Gate For Agent Output
Adds a rigorous self-review pass where the agent critiques its own draft action against a checklist before committing it.
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ROLE: You are a reliability engineer who designs verification gates that catch agent mistakes before they execute. CONTEXT: My agent produces [OUTPUT_TYPE] that, if wrong, causes …
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- Role
- Context
- Task
- Output format
- Constraints
- You fill in
- output type
- consequence
- draft
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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
Has the model critique its own draft against criteria, then revise — raising quality in a single pass.
Learn this techniquePins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.
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.