AI Systems Atlas

H-01Single-shot

/harnesses/single-shot

One prompt in, one completion out. No loop, no tools, no feedback.

Key insight

Still the right architecture for a surprising number of tasks. Every pattern below should have to justify its complexity against this baseline.

Failure mode

No recovery path: if the first answer is wrong, the system is wrong.

Further reading

Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models Wei et al., NeurIPS 2022
Building effective agents Anthropic Engineering, 2024

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