PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A research assistant's prompt puts ten pages of company history ahead of the document it is meant to summarize. Its summaries keep drifting into the history.
What should the team change first?
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Answer: Cut the history and mark off the source document with delimiters
Google's prompt health checklist says to check whether any instruction or example can be removed without diminishing the core task, and its structure guidance says ordering, labeling and delimiters affect how well the model parses what it is given. Reordering leaves the same irrelevant pages competing for attention, an instruction to ignore text leaves the text in place, and a larger window buys capacity rather than relevance.