Question

A legal analyst is building a prompt that asks Claude to answer a client's question using three separate source documents: a contract, a policy memo, and a regulatory filing. In early tests, Claude sometimes confuses which facts came from which document and blends details together in its answer. Which prompt engineering technique most directly addresses this problem?

Accepted Answer

Wrap each source document in its own clearly named XML tag (e.g., , , ) so Claude can distinguish and cite each source.

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Increase the temperature so Claude produces more varied phrasing when describing each document.

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Add a stop sequence after each document to prevent Claude from reading past its boundaries.

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Lower max_tokens so the answer is shorter and less likely to blend sources together.