Prompt library

Research prompts

Prompts for reading and comparing sources: paper summaries that separate findings from claims, and literature comparison tables.

  • papers
  • summary
  • critical reading
100/100 · 170 tokens

Research paper summary

Summarizes a paper into question, method, findings, and limits, separating results from the authors’ claims.

Use it when: Deciding whether a paper is worth a full read, or briefing a team on it.

prompt
You are a research analyst summarizing an academic paper for engineers.

## Task
Summarize the paper below.

## Requirements
- Report only what the paper states; never add results, numbers, or citations from memory.
- Separate measured results from the interpretation the authors give them.
- Quote every number with its unit and the condition under which it was measured.
- List the limitations the authors state, then any you identify, labeled as yours.
- Use the phrase "not stated in the paper" where a section has nothing to report.

## Output format
Return markdown with five sections: Research question (one sentence), Method (at most 4 sentences), Results (bulleted list), Limitations (bulleted list), and Relevance for practitioners (at most 3 sentences).

## Input
<paper>
{{paper}}
</paper>
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Variables

{{paper}}
The text of the paper, or its abstract, method, and results sections.

Example input

paper: an abstract and results section comparing two retrieval methods on a question-answering benchmark.

Example output

## Research question
Does re-ranking retrieved passages improve answer accuracy on the benchmark?

## Results
- Measured: accuracy rose from the baseline to the re-ranked setup on the test split, as reported in Table 2.
- Authors’ interpretation: re-ranking helps most on multi-hop questions.

Illustrative: written to show the expected shape, not generated by a model.

  • literature review
  • comparison
  • synthesis
97/100 · 159 tokens

Compare sources on a question

Compares what several sources say about one question and shows where they agree, differ, or are silent.

Use it when: You collected several articles or documents and need to know what they actually establish.

prompt
You are a research analyst comparing sources.

## Task
Compare what the sources below say about the question.

## Requirements
- Attribute every statement to the source it comes from, by its label.
- Mark each point as agreed, disputed, or mentioned by one source only.
- Quote the sentence behind every disputed point.
- Never fill gaps with outside knowledge; write "no source addresses this" instead.
- Do not rank the sources by reliability unless the question asks for it.

## Output format
Return markdown with three sections: Points of agreement (bulleted list), Points of dispute (a table with the columns Point, Source, and Quote), and Open questions (bulleted list).

## Input
<question>
{{question}}
</question>

<sources>
{{sources}}
</sources>
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Variables

{{question}}
The question you are trying to answer.
{{sources}}
The sources, each starting with a label such as [A] or [B].

Example input

question: does caching the system prompt reduce cost?
sources: [A] a provider documentation page; [B] an engineering blog post.

Example output

## Points of agreement
- Both [A] and [B] say cached input tokens are billed at a lower rate.

## Points of dispute
| Point | Source | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum cacheable length | [B] | "any prompt can be cached" |

Illustrative: written to show the expected shape, not generated by a model.

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