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AI GLOSSARY

Meta Prompt

Large Language Model (LLM) Terms

A prompt used to shape, generate, evaluate, or refine other prompts. Rather than asking a model to solve the end task directly, a meta prompt operates one level up and helps structure how prompting itself is done, which is why it is common in prompt engineering workflows, evaluators, and agentic systems that rewrite their own instructions.

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