Prompting and Task Execution·Task 1.2·Bloom: apply·Difficulty 3/5·7 min read·Updated 2026-07-14

Single-Conversation vs Separate-Conversation Steps (CCAO-F)

Apply task decomposition techniques to structure complex requests

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In short
Deciding whether decomposed steps belong in one conversation or a new one turns on dependency and context health. Steps that build on each other stay in one conversation so each can see the prior results; a genuinely independent step can move to a new conversation; and a step should also start fresh when the current conversation has grown long enough that early context is degrading.

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