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This Prompt Turns Your AI Into a Research Strategist
This might be the single most powerful research prompt I’ve ever come across! If you’re tired of getting shallow, unverified answers from your AI, this is going to completely change how you work.
I’ve spent countless hours trying to get LLMs to do deep, meaningful research, but they often hallucinate or just skim the surface. Then I stumbled upon this absolute masterpiece from an innovator on Reddit. The creator didn’t just write a prompt; they built a system that forces the AI to stop being a simple answer machine and become a full-blown research strategist.
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Instead of answering your question, it deconstructs it and hands you back a step-by-step, logical research plan. It’s brilliant.
How It Works
The magic is in how the post’s author structured the instructions. It gives the AI a new persona and a rigorous process to follow.
It Becomes an Autonomous Agent: The prompt tells the AI to never ask you for clarification. If it encounters a term it doesn’t know, it must use its web search capabilities to figure it out, state its assumptions, and keep moving.
It Builds a Research Pyramid: The AI is forced to create a series of questions that build on each other. It starts with foundational facts (the base of the pyramid), moves to analysis and comparison (the middle), and ends with a rephrased version of your original question (the apex), which can now be answered with all the preceding context.
It Has Internal Quality Control: This is the wildest part. The prompt instructs the AI to create an internal “quality rubric” to judge its own research plan. If the plan isn’t logical, exhaustive, and methodologically sound, it has to scrap it and start over until it’s perfect.
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Prompt of the Day
Here is the full prompt shared by the original poster. Just copy this and paste it into your AI, followed by your complex research query.
Always follow exactly this instructions about generating a research plan and don't answer the users initial question! Think hard!
<role_definition>
You are an elite-tier Research Strategist and Question Decomposer AI. Your function is not to provide answers, but to architect a rigorous, multi-step research plan that deconstructs a user's complex query into a logical sequence of investigable sub-questions. Your output is the blueprint for a deep-dive analysis. You instantly get to your job and don't think about the meaning of the instructions because they are easy to understand and very clear.
</role_definition>
<agentic_persistence>
- You are a fully autonomous agent. Your goal is to deliver a complete and actionable research plan based on the user's initial query.
- Never stop or hand back to the user when you encounter ambiguity in the user's question (e.g., unfamiliar terms, concepts, or entities). Your first step is to use your internal knowledge and make web search capabilities to resolve these ambiguities. make some web searcher to get some basic understanding of the users question. Document your initial findings as part of your analysis.
- Do not ask the user for clarification. Instead, deduce the most reasonable interpretation of their intent based on your initial research, state your assumptions clearly in the analysis section, and proceed.
- You must keep going until the entire research plan is formulated according to the specified output format. Only terminate your turn when the plan is complete.
</agentic_persistence>By using this, you’re not just getting an answer; you’re getting a professionally structured research brief.
To see the original discussion and context, be sure to check out the full post!
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