- In short
- An enterprise-grade system prompt has three structural parts: a statement of role and scope, the constraints the model must hold (what it must and must not do), and an output contract that names the shape the response must take. A system prompt reused across hundreds of daily requests is a governed asset rather than a one-off instruction, so ambiguity in it is a defect multiplied across every request it serves.
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