Label them as open questions and explain which behavior depends on them. This prevents the assistant from treating a tentative idea as an approved requirement.
How can detailed prompts communicate a developer’s complete thought process?
How should uncertain requirements appear in a detailed coding prompt?
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Include the intended outcome, relevant facts, constraints, settled decisions, and concise rationale. Label open questions so the assistant can distinguish uncertainty from approved requirements.
Describe the required users, data, actions, states, and verification steps. Concrete acceptance criteria make quality assessable and reduce the assistant's need to guess.
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