A practical lab · about 18 minutes
Interactive learning lab
Prompting techniques + Building with prompts · guide 2 of 8
The observable prompt pipeline lab
0/6 core signals
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Pipeline lab · BriefingScene 1 / 7
One node, one kind of work
A chain earns its latency when intermediate state needs inspection or routing.
One node, one kind of work ready.
Predict
Inspect
Verify
Split when output format changes, a quality gate matters, a person must choose, or a classification routes downstream work. Keep the chain short: weak handoffs compound errors.
Observable steps beat one opaque mega-prompt.
Contracts stabilise handoffs.
Every additional call needs a reason.