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admin f7ad9ba51f Establish prompt engineering baseline with Gold Standard tests
- introduce Gold Standard evaluation corpus
- document decision taxonomy
- define prompt-engineering methodology
- add regression workflow
- establish Prompt Version 2 baseline
- validate decision_simple, decision_deferred and decision_none
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# Prompt Engineering Methodology
Prompt engineering uses the Gold Standard corpus as the reference. The corpus is
not adjusted to make a prompt pass.
Rules:
1. Only one prompt change is allowed per iteration.
2. Only one gold test case may be optimized at a time.
3. Every prompt modification must be validated immediately.
4. A prompt modification is acceptable only if it improves the current target
and does not degrade any previously passing gold test.
5. Never modify `expected.json` to make a prompt pass.
6. Prompt engineering edits prompt files only. Python code changes require a
separate explicit task.
7. Maintain a prompt evolution log for every iteration.
8. If a prompt cannot improve a test after several small iterations, stop and
analyze the root cause.
9. Prompt changes must be generally applicable and must not special-case one
transcript.
10. If two consecutive prompt iterations fail to improve the current target,
stop further prompt modifications and classify the root cause.
11. If a prompt produces unexpected behavior, first verify whether the targeted
gold test has an objectively unique ground truth.
Prompt Version 2 baseline:
- `decision_simple`: passing
- `decision_deferred`: passing
- `decision_none`: passing
Prompt Version 2 adds explicit support for process decisions where the group
agrees to defer a substantive decision until additional information is
available.