prompt-engineering
Everything on Ground Truth tagged “prompt-engineering” — 2 items.
SkillZip compresses an agent's skill file without ever running the agent News
A new method compresses the accumulated skill files of self-evolving agents by finding the shortest structural explanation that preserves every contract element, with no test rollouts required.
Agent instruction files triple in size because nobody remembers why a rule exists News
A study of 247,694 instruction lifetimes across 1,867 GitHub repositories found agentic coding instruction files grow 226 percent over their lifetime and effectively never shrink, because deleting a rule whose rationale is lost risks breaking something.