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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.