cove-prompt-design

Explains Chain of Verification (CoVe) prompt design — a 4-step pattern separating generation from independent factual verification. Use when designing prompts that require factual accuracy, reducing hallucinations, checking technical standards or APIs, or producing step-by-step procedures where subtle errors are costly.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured, actionable guide to CoVe with a clear sequenced workflow and concrete templates and examples. Its main weakness is redundancy: the core 4-step pattern and the chain-of-thought distinction are each repeated multiple times.

Suggestions

Consolidate the three restatements of the 4-step CoVe structure (Core CoVe Structure, With CoVe example, Practical Prompt Template) into one canonical template plus one worked example to reduce redundancy.

Merge the duplicated chain-of-thought distinction (the intro line and the 'CoVe vs Chain of Thought' section) into a single concise contrast.

Add one fully worked end-to-end example showing verification questions both asked and independently answered before the final revised answer, to push actionability from concrete guidance to copy-paste-ready completeness.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient per section, but the 4-step CoVe structure is restated three times (Core CoVe Structure, With CoVe example, Practical Prompt Template) and the chain-of-thought distinction is repeated twice, so it could be tightened — matching anchor 3 rather than 2 since it is not padded with basics Claude lacks.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides a copy-paste-ready Practical Prompt Template plus concrete good/bad verification-question examples and with/without-CoVe contrasts; the minor gap of no fully worked end-to-end verified example keeps it at anchor 4 rather than 5.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The CoVe process is a clearly sequenced 4-5 step workflow with an explicit verify-then-revise feedback loop ('If any answer reveals an error or uncertainty, revise the original answer'), matching anchor 4; it is not 5 because the recovery loop is only lightly specified.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized with clear section headers and appropriately self-contained with no external references needed, matching anchor 4 ('good structure; most content appropriately placed'); the over-50-line size means the small-skill 5-exception does not apply.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

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The description clearly and explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it, with strong natural trigger phrases and a distinct named-methodology niche. Its only weakness is that it states one conceptual action rather than enumerating several concrete capabilities.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the CoVe domain and one concrete conceptual action ('separating generation from independent factual verification') but does not list several specific actions, matching anchor 3 rather than 4.	3 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Explains CoVe prompt design — a 4-step pattern...') and when ('Use when designing prompts that require factual accuracy...') with concrete trigger phrases, matching anchor 5.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Natural trigger phrases like 'designing prompts', 'factual accuracy', 'reducing hallucinations', and 'step-by-step procedures' give good coverage, though synonyms and extension-style variants are missing so it falls short of anchor 5.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Names a specific methodology (CoVe) with a clear niche and distinct triggers, with only minor overlap risk against general prompt-design skills, matching anchor 4 rather than 5.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Validation

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Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills
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Commit: 3e0b2af

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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