Meta-Prompting
Meta-prompting uses a single model as a conductor that breaks a task down and writes prompts for fresh instances of itself acting as specialized experts, then integrates their outputs.
Description
The term is also used more loosely for asking a model to write or improve a prompt.
Sources
- Suzgun & Kalai (2024). Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding.
Cite this entry
Protologue. (2026). Meta-Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0070). https://protologue.com/t/meta-prompting/
BibTeX
@misc{protologue_meta_prompting,
title = {Meta-Prompting},
author = {{Protologue}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques, v1.0.0},
note = {Entry PTL-0070},
url = {https://protologue.com/t/meta-prompting/}
}