5 techniques, live from D1
Techniques
Real prompting techniques and guardrails, each citing the exact doc it came from. Filter by category:
| title | category | applies to | guidance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Define exactly when Fable 5 should pause vs. proceed tec_fable5_autonomy_checkpoint |
model specific | claude-fable-5 |
"Pause for the user only when the work genuinely requires them: a destructive or irreversible action, a real scope change, or input only they can provide. |
| Consider all effort levels, not just the highest tec_fable5_effort_levels |
model specific | claude-fable-5 |
Effort is the primary lever for the intelligence/latency/cost trade-off on Fable 5. |
| Lead with the outcome, not the reasoning trail tec_fable5_lead_with_outcome |
model specific | claude-fable-5 |
"Lead with the outcome. |
| Effort defaults to high; instructions are read literally, especially at low effort tec_sonnet5_effort_literalism |
model specific | claude-sonnet-5 |
On Claude Sonnet 5, effort defaults to high (same as Sonnet 4.6); raise to xhigh for the hardest coding/agentic tasks. |
| Calibrate verbosity explicitly rather than assuming a fixed style tec_sonnet5_verbosity |
model specific | claude-sonnet-5 |
Claude Sonnet 5 calibrates response length to task complexity rather than defaulting to a fixed verbosity — shorter answers on simple lookups, longer ones on open-ended analysis. |
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