Different tasks require different prompting structures, evidence, constraints, and evaluation methods. A research request should define research questions, source requirements, currency expectations, and citation rules. An analytical task should specify the decision to support, relevant data, assumptions, and comparison criteria. Drafting work requires audience, tone, purpose, structure, and length. Brainstorming normally benefits from broader exploration, diversity requirements, and delayed evaluation.
A reusable template can provide a useful baseline, but it should not remain unchanged when task characteristics differ. Options B, C, and D incorrectly assume that uniformity guarantees effectiveness. In practice, excessive rigidity can omit critical instructions or impose an inappropriate structure. A compliance report and an early-stage ideation exercise should not be prompted identically.
Anthropic’s prompting documentation covers multiple techniques—including clear instructions, examples, role prompting, structured formats, prompt chaining, and success criteria—because no single technique is optimal for every workload. Anthropic’s legal-summarization guidance also demonstrates that prompt details can be adjusted for different levels of technicality, verbosity, and structure. The project lead should therefore standardize reusable components while adapting task-specific objectives, inputs, constraints, and output formats. Anthropic’s prompt-engineering overview
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