Concepts & capability filters
prompting_technique
Chain of Thought
Chain of Thought (CoT) prompts a model to work through intermediate reasoning before answering, which raises accuracy on multi-step tasks but adds tokens and latency.
- Category
- prompting_technique
- Difficulty
- Not classified
- Aliases
- None tracked
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-02
Key facts
- Don't surface raw reasoning in production UX unless you need it — reasoning models expose it as a separate, often summarized channel, and the visible steps aren't guaranteed to reflect the model's true computation.