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Prompt Chain Integrity

cognitive-interface-architecture / prompt-chain-integrity

Definition

The property that each step in a multi-step prompt sequence preserves the contracts established in earlier steps. A chain has integrity when every prompt in the sequence receives the state it expected, produces the state the next prompt needs, and fails loudly rather than silently when either condition breaks.

What this prevents

State loss across the chain. When a step receives degraded or misformatted state from the previous step, it produces output that looks plausible but is built on a broken foundation. The failure is invisible until the final output fails downstream.

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