From prompt-architecture
Designs chain-of-thought reasoning chains for improved AI outputs in complex reasoning, ambiguous inputs, high-stakes tasks, analysis, and creative exploration.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/prompt-architecture:chain-of-thought-designThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Chain-of-thought prompting asks the AI to show its reasoning step by step before arriving at an answer. When designed well, this produces more accurate, more nuanced, and more trustworthy outputs. When designed poorly, it produces verbose justification of bad answers.
Chain-of-thought prompting asks the AI to show its reasoning step by step before arriving at an answer. When designed well, this produces more accurate, more nuanced, and more trustworthy outputs. When designed poorly, it produces verbose justification of bad answers.
A reasoning chain has structure. Design it deliberately: 1. Problem decomposition "First, break this problem into its component parts." 2. Evidence gathering "For each part, identify what you know and what you're uncertain about." 3. Analysis "Analyse each component, noting assumptions and limitations." 4. Synthesis "Combine your analysis into an overall assessment." 5. Conclusion "State your conclusion and your confidence level."
npx claudepluginhub owl-listener/ai-design-skills --plugin prompt-architectureStrips AI-slop patterns from chain-of-thought, extended thinking, and agent decomposition traces—not final prose. Targets over-explaining questions, hedging plans, trivial over-decomposition, infinite-loop rationalization.
Prompt design techniques for LLMs: structure, examples, reasoning patterns, and optimization. Invoke whenever task involves any interaction with AI instructions — crafting, debugging, improving, or evaluating prompts for skills, agents, output styles, or system configurations.
Enables structured step-by-step reasoning with revision and branching for complex problems, multi-stage analysis, design planning, problem decomposition, unclear scope, or alternative approaches.