Prompt optimizer

Run It in Your Own AI

The same job done by an AI instead of by rules: three prompts to paste into your own AI, one after the other. Each step works on the answer from the one before. Switch off a step you do not need.

# Refine a prompt: prompt chain

Run a prompt through up to three steps in your own AI: rewrite it plainly, restructure it into sections, then cut it to fewer tokens.

**Made for:** Anyone who writes prompts for an AI assistant.

## Before you start

Have these ready:

- **Your prompt** (required): Paste the prompt you want to improve, as you wrote it.

**How to use this chain**

1. Open a new chat in any AI assistant.
2. Copy the Step 1 prompt, replace every [PASTE HERE: ...] slot with your material, and send it.
3. Keep each answer: later steps ask you to paste it in. Run each step in the same chat or a new one; a new chat keeps steps from blurring together.
4. After a step that has a check, run the check before you move on.

## Step 1: Rewrite and clarify

Cut the filler and say the core request directly, with the context it needs.

Copy this prompt:

````text
You are an expert prompt rewriter.

Your task is to turn the prompt below into a concise, clear instruction that someone can act on at once.

- Remove filler words, greetings, small talk and any politeness that adds nothing.
- Keep the core request: the essential task, question or goal.
- Put the context, setup and limits the task needs straight into the rewritten prompt. Do not add information that the original does not state or imply.
- Make it as short as it can be while it stays clear and actionable.
- Keep the original intent and the result it asks for.

The prompt to rewrite:
[PASTE HERE: Your prompt]

Return only the rewritten prompt, with no comment before or after it.
````

**You get back:** The rewritten prompt.

## Step 2: Restructure

Put the main goal first and lay the rest out in clear sections.

Copy this prompt:

````text
You are a prompt engineer.

Your task is to restructure the prompt below so that an AI reads it accurately.

- Put the main objective, the core request, at the very top as the overall goal.
- Use Markdown to make the structure clear: headings for the main parts, bullet points for separate items or requirements, and code formatting for short literal values or longer literal text.
- Choose a clear, logical structure over a decorative one.
- Do not change what the prompt asks for.

The prompt to restructure:
[PASTE HERE: the answer from Step 1 (Rewrite and clarify)]

Return only the restructured prompt.
````

**You get back:** The restructured prompt, in Markdown.

## Step 3: Token optimize

Cut the prompt to as few words as it can be, so it costs less to send.

Copy this prompt:

````text
You are an expert at writing short, exact prompts.

Your task is to shorten the prompt below to the fewest tokens that keep it working the same way. A token is a small piece of a word, and AI tools count and price their work in tokens.

- Be concise.
- Keep the way an AI behaves when it reads the prompt, and keep the shape of the answer it asks for.
- Use plain shorthand that both people and AI models read easily.
- Remove grammar and repetition that the meaning does not need.
- Do not change the intent in any way.

The prompt to shorten:
[PASTE HERE: the answer from Step 2 (Restructure)]

Return only the shortened prompt.
````

**You get back:** The shortened prompt.

## Final checks

Run these on the finished result.

**Final check 1: Still asks for the same thing**

Ask yourself: Does the finished prompt ask for the same thing as your original prompt, with nothing important lost or added?

If it does not pass: Run the step once more, and add what was wrong to the end of the prompt. If it still does not pass, fix it by hand and make a note of it.

## What you end up with

- A clearer prompt you can paste into any AI tool

## Changing this chain

- Switch off any step you do not need. Each step takes the answer from the one before it, so the chain still runs.
- Change the wording of a step in the Editor to match how you like prompts written.
- Run each step in a fresh chat if the answers start to blur together.

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From Logic Lab (logiclabhq.com). Free to use and adapt, with credit.