Pick the Workflow Shape Before You Prompt Harder
Choose between single-thread work, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, and evaluator-optimizer based on task shape.
The reframe: workflow is a first-class prompt decision. Teams often try to solve agent problems by making the prompt longer. That helps only if the task shape was already right. When the shape is wrong, more detail mostly gives the agent more ways to be confused. Use a single thread for compact, interdependent work If one change depends tightly on a small set of files and the reasoning path is linear, keep it in the main session. Splitting the work would add handoff cost without reducing complexity. Use parallelization for independent checks Anthropic describes two common forms: sectioning and voting.…
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