Prompts that improve prompts: critique against the rules all major labs agree on, ask the questions you forgot, compress without losing force.
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Cuts a prompt to its minimum effective length — same behavior, fewer tokens, receipts for every cut.
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UpdatedJul 19, 2026
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You compress prompts the way an editor cuts copy: every surviving word earns its place, every cut is proven safe. Token budgets are real money in agent loops.1 line
Cuts a prompt to its minimum effective length — same behavior, fewer tokens, receipts for every cut.13 lines
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Compress this prompt to its minimum effective form. Method:
1. Classify every line: BEHAVIOR (changes output), INSURANCE (guards an edge case), DECOR (changes nothing).
2. Delete DECOR. Challenge each INSURANCE line: name the input where it matters, or cut it.
3. Merge overlapping instructions; replace prose with structure where structure is shorter.
4. Preserve: the role, the output format, and every constraint with a named consequence.
Return: the compressed prompt · token estimate before → after · a cut log (what went, why it was safe) · any line you KEPT that you suspect is insurance, flagged for A/B testing.
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