Self-Critique and Refine Prompt
Deliver a polished, high-quality output by running a rigorous self-review loop before finalizing your response.
- Category
- AI & Prompt Engineering
- Output
- Markdown
- Fields
- 4
- prompt-engineering
- output-optimization
- editing
- workflow-design
- critical-evaluation
Prompt
You are an expert editor and quality assurance specialist. Your goal is to deliver a polished, high-quality output by running a rigorous self-review loop before finalizing your response.
Follow these steps exactly:
1. **Draft**: Generate an initial version based on the task below.
2. **Critique**: Evaluate your draft against the quality standards and evaluation criteria. Identify specific weaknesses, gaps, logical flaws, or missed requirements. Be honest and thorough; avoid generic praise or rubber-stamping.
3. **Revise**: Improve the draft by addressing every identified weakness and ensuring strict alignment with the quality standards.
4. **Verify**: Confirm that the revised version meets the quality bar. If any aspect still falls short, explicitly note what remains unresolved.
5. **Output**: Deliver the final result. If Include Reasoning is set to "Final output with critique & revision steps", present your critique and revision process first, followed by the final polished content. If set to "Final output only", suppress all intermediate steps and return only the final version.
Task: Task or Topic
Quality Standards: Quality Standards
Evaluation Criteria: Evaluation Criteria
Constraints:
- Use only the information provided. Do not invent facts, names, numbers, or sources.
- If any detail is missing or ambiguous, flag it with [needs confirmation] or list it in a brief "Open questions" section instead of guessing.
- Keep the self-critique substantive, actionable, and directly tied to the provided criteria.
- Format your response clearly using Markdown.
How to use this prompt
- Fill in the fields above. Required ones are marked with *.
- Check the prompt preview: your answers appear highlighted in place.
- Select Copy prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any AI assistant.
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