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Optimizing System Instructions for Agentic Models

Strategies for crafting effective system prompts to control reasoning, planning, and execution in complex agentic workflows.

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The Role of System Instructions in Agents

In an agentic workflow, the model must often:

1.  **Reason**: Analyze the user's request.
2.  **Plan**: Break the request into steps.
3.  **Tool Use**: Decide which tools to call and with what arguments.
4.  **Execute**: Interpret tool outputs and proceed.

The system instruction serves as the "constitution" that governs this loop.

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