It never changes the prompt's original meaning, adds unrequested features, removes existing guardrails, or lengthens the prompt without justification. See common-problems.md for before/after fix patterns and improvement-techniques.md for strengthening via CoT, few-shot, or guardrails.

Prompt Optimization

Skill for analyzing and improving existing prompts.

References

• common-problems.md - Load when: diagnosing a vague or ambiguous prompt — 5 before/after examples (vague instructions, missing context, undefined format, no error handling, weak emphasis)
• improvement-techniques.md - Load when: strengthening a prompt with Chain-of-Thought, few-shot examples, or reinforced guardrails
• scorecard-template.md - Load when: writing the before/after optimization report to hand off

Optimization Workflow