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Reasoning Effort: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
reasoning_effort in 2026: four copy-paste recipes to dial reasoning from none to max in OpenAI and Claude, when to drop it, and the cost and cache traps that bite.
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tool_choice: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
tool_choice in 2026: four copy-paste recipes to force any tool, pin one named tool, forbid tools for a turn, or leave it on auto, in Claude and OpenAI, each with the failure mode that bites.
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Stop Sequences on Claude: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Stop sequences in 2026: four copy-paste recipes that cut a model off at a delimiter, bound a JSON object, force one section, and stop an agent from faking its own turn, plus where they break.
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Self-Consistency Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Self-consistency prompting in 2026: five copy-paste recipes that sample multiple reasoning paths and majority-vote the answer, plus a gate for when to skip it.
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Chain of Draft Prompting: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Chain of Draft keeps chain-of-thought's steps but caps each to a few words, cutting tokens hard while holding accuracy. Four recipes, the gate, and the failure mode.
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Generated Knowledge Prompting: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Four paste-ready generated knowledge prompting recipes for 2026: make the model generate facts first, then answer, each with the failure mode nobody prints.
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Self-Refine Prompting: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Self-refine prompting in 2026: four copy-paste recipes for the draft-critique-revise loop, the paper-faithful three-call version, and the stopping rule nobody ships.
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Self-Ask Prompting: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Self-ask prompting in 2026: four copy-paste recipes that make a model ask and answer its own follow-up questions, plus the search-tool upgrade and the gate for when to skip it.
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Socratic Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Socratic prompting in 2026: five copy-paste recipes that surface assumptions, self-interrogate in one message, debug by question, and add a maieutic consistency check, plus when to skip it.
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Chain of Verification: A Prompt That Catches Its Own Hallucinations (2026)
Chain of Verification (CoVe) is a four-step prompt that cuts hallucinations by making a model draft, plan verification questions, answer them independently, and rewrite keeping only what survived.
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Chain of Density: A Summarizing Prompt That Ships (2026)
Chain of Density is a one-call summarizing prompt that rewrites a summary five times at fixed length so it packs in the facts most 'summarize this' prompts drop. Copy-paste receipt, the failure modes, and the production variant.
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Assistant Prefill on Claude: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Assistant prefill in 2026: four copy-paste recipes that force JSON, kill the preamble, lock the output shape, and hold a persona, plus where prefill breaks.
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