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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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Best Practices for Developers

1.  **Version Control**: Treat system prompts like code. Version them and track performance changes.
2.  **Modular Design**: Don't write one giant prompt. Compose it from modules (e.g., `CoreIdentity`, `ToolProtocols`, `SafetyGuardrails`).
3.  **Iterative Testing**: Use an evaluation dataset (evals) to measure the impact of prompt changes on success rate and token usage.
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