Methods

Methods are the underlying techniques that make workflows effective.

A workflow is a sequence.
A method is a principle.

This section focuses on foundational practices that improve results across all tools and tasks:

1. Designing constraint-first questions
2. Defining success criteria before prompting
3. Breaking complex problems into structured sub-questions
4. Managing context deliberately instead of dumping information
5. Forcing verification and confidence checks
6. Reducing ambiguity before iteration begins

Methods are portable.

They work across platforms, models, and toolchains.

If workflows are the recipes, methods are the techniques that make those recipes reliable.

Start here if you want to improve the quality of your thinking before you improve the quality of your prompts.