Question

A developer is building a contract-review assistant. The prompt includes fixed reviewer instructions, several reference clauses, and the full text of a customer-submitted contract that varies per request. In early testing, Claude occasionally confuses parts of the pasted contract with the reviewer instructions, sometimes treating contract language as commands. Which prompt engineering technique most directly addresses this problem?

Accepted Answer

Wrap each distinct part (instructions, reference clauses, contract text) in clearly named XML tags so the boundaries between them are explicit.

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Lower the temperature to 0 so the model produces more deterministic output.

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Increase max_tokens so the full contract can be processed without truncation.

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Add a stop sequence after the reviewer instructions to prevent Claude from reading the contract.