# The prompt improvement cycle — Gemini Notebook prompt

> For prompts you will run more than once. Instead of tweaking wording and hoping, this makes the notebook grade its own last answer against the sources, then rewrite the prompt that produced it. Three passes usually gets further than an afternoon of manual fiddling.


_Markdown version of https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/workflows/prompt-improvement-cycle — for AI and LLM crawlers. Content is identical to the web page._

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- Category: Workflows
- Goes in: Chat message

Shared by [Guillaume Martin](https://github.com/GMartin-Data/notebooklm-prompts)

## The prompt

```
Act as a prompt engineer reviewing your own previous answer.

Step 1 — Grade it. Mark each claim in your last answer as: supported by the sources, inferred beyond them, or unsupported. Give the counts.

Step 2 — Diagnose the prompt, not the answer. Which instruction in my prompt allowed the weak parts through? Be specific about the wording at fault: vagueness, a missing constraint, or an assumption I left implicit.

Step 3 — Rewrite my prompt so those failures are impossible rather than discouraged. Keep it as short as the job allows.

Step 4 — Name the one thing your rewritten prompt still cannot guarantee, so I know what to check by hand.
```

## How to use it

1. Open your notebook at notebooklm.google.com.
2. Replace the [bracketed] parts with your specifics.
3. Paste the prompt into the chat box and send it.

Square brackets mark the parts you replace with your own topic or question.

## More workflows prompts

- [Conversational Bot](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/workflows/conversational-bot.md)
- [Custom Bot](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/workflows/custom-bot.md)
- [Listener Bot](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/workflows/listener-bot.md)
- [Chat Episode (Audio Overviews)](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/workflows/chat-episode.md)
- [Triage your sources before you synthesise](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/workflows/source-triage-pass.md)
- [Multi-source synthesis into a Video Overview](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/workflows/synthesis-to-video.md)
- [From notebook to a finished deliverable](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/workflows/notebook-to-deliverable.md)