What problem does it solve?
This Skill provides structured prompting patterns and decision frameworks to improve model performance on complex, multi-step reasoning tasks where simple prompts fail, reducing errors in arithmetic, symbolic manipulation, multi-hop QA, and logical deduction.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Chain-of-Thought (CoT) & Zero-shot CoT: Elicit intermediate reasoning steps to increase accuracy on math and commonsense problems.
- Self-Consistency & Sampling: Generate diverse reasoning paths and aggregate results to reduce variance and increase confidence.
- Tree of Thoughts & Least-to-Most: Explore and backtrack complex solution trees and decompose hard problems into subproblems for stepwise solving.
- ReAct & PAL: Combine reasoning with external actions (search, lookups) and program execution for grounded, precise computation.
- Auto-CoT & Reflexion: Automate exemplar generation and iteratively learn from failures to improve subsequent attempts.
- Use Case Example: Solve multi-step math word problems with PAL for exact calculation, apply Tree of Thoughts for puzzle solving, or use ReAct for multi-hop factual queries that require web lookups.
Quick Start
Ask the agent to solve the problem step by step and explicitly show its intermediate reasoning.