intent-framing

To frame prompts for a Cowork session, you establish audience, outcome, format, and constraints into a single guiding brief that every subsequent prompt builds on to maintain alignment.

The best way to set constraints and audience for prompt engineering is to write a four-line frame pinning these parameters to the session start, orienting all subsequent outputs.

Hand off a Cowork session by pinning a consistent frame that defines the audience, outcome, format, and constraints, enabling smooth transitions between agents and roles.

You need to establish a frame for prompt engineering tasks when handling non-trivial sessions that require consistent orientation, direction changes, or agent handoffs to keep output aligned.

The intent-framing approach requires no external dependencies, relying solely on writing a four-line frame to pin audience, outcome, format, and constraints to your session.

You should not use prompt framing for simple workflow tasks because its scope specifically targets maintaining alignment across prompts and handling direction changes in non-trivial sessions, adding unnecessary overhead otherwise.