Stop Writing Complex Prompts: The SCQA Method Lets the Agent Fill in the Answer
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-10-09
A concise agent prompting structure called SCQA replaces long hand-written prompts with four parts:
- Situation: the context
- Complication: the problem to solve
- Question: the decision to be made
- Answer: a proposed solution — usually provided by the agent
Set up the context, complication and question; let the model propose the answer.
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