create-meta-prompts

Multi-stage Claude workflows use meta-prompts—templates that chain research, planning, and implementation stages with XML-structured outputs. This Skill automates their creation, generating dependency-aware prompts saved in organized folders with SUMMARY.md for each stage, enabling Claude-to-Claude pipelines with explicit provenance and automatic reference chaining.

Meta-prompts are templates that guide Claude through structured multi-stage reasoning: research to gather context, planning to design solutions, and implementation to execute. They enforce consistent XML formatting, maintain provenance across stages, and enable dependency detection so each prompt automatically references prior artifacts, reducing manual coordination and improving workflow reliability.

Use the /create-meta-prompt command to generate a chained workflow: a research prompt gathers information, a plan prompt structures the solution, and a do prompt executes it. The Skill creates all three with XML metadata, saves outputs to `.prompts/{number}-{topic}-{purpose}/`, generates SUMMARY.md for each stage, and automatically wires dependencies so each prompt references prior results.

Yes. Meta-prompts follow standardized patterns (do/plan/research/revise) and enforced schemas for folder structure and metadata, but each is generated for a specific topic and purpose. The Skill supports stage-aware customization—research, plan, and refine prompts adapt to your workflow while maintaining the XML structure and dependency chaining required for multi-stage execution.

Each execution produces XML-structured prompts organized in `.prompts/{number}-{topic}-{purpose}/`, a SUMMARY.md file for human review, and metadata encoding dependencies and provenance. Outputs are designed for Claude-to-Claude pipelines, so each downstream stage automatically receives prior research and planning artifacts without manual intervention.

No. The Skill automates prompt creation and chaining logic, handling XML formatting, dependency detection, and folder schemas automatically. You define the topic and purpose; the Skill generates research, plan, and implementation prompts following proven patterns, eliminating the need to design multi-stage workflows from scratch or manually wire stage dependencies.