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  "Instruction"
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 "definition": "Text or data given to an AI system, usually by a user and often as an instruction, that is only part of the context the system sees when it answers.",
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 "tier": "core",
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  "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/few-shot-prompting",
  "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/prompt-chaining",
  "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/prompt-template",
  "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/role-prompting"
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  {
   "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/system-prompt",
   "type": "confused"
  }
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  {
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  {
   "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/prompt-engineering",
   "label": "crafts the",
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 "modified": "2026-10-21",
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