AI agents

Writing effective system prompts

• How to Design a System Prompt for a Production Agent
• How to Write a System Prompt That Handles Tool Errors
• Instruction Hierarchy: A System Prompt That Outranks User Text
• A Prompt Example That Carries One Wrong Field On Purpose
• Counter-Examples for Fields a Model Keeps Coercing
• Feeding a Missed Fact Back Into the Extraction Prompt
• When the Model Ignores the Quoted Error: Forcing Attention
• When to Enforce a Rule in Code Instead of the Prompt