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What is Chain of Thought (CoT)?

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A prompting technique where models reason step-by-step before giving a final answer.

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Chain of Thought prompting encourages models to show intermediate reasoning, which often improves accuracy on multi-step problems in math, logic, and planning.

Agent builders use CoT-style instructions when reliability matters—especially for analysis, troubleshooting, and structured decision support.

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