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Performance Optimization

Overview

Performance directives help your agent produce efficient, focused outputs. This includes minimizing unnecessary tokens, prioritizing actionable content, and optimizing for the user's workflow.

Key Principles

✓Instruct the agent to prioritize actionable answers over verbose explanations
✓Define when to be brief vs. thorough based on query complexity
✓Include caching hints — tell the agent what context to remember
✓Set priorities for conflicting requirements
✓Optimize for the common case, handle edge cases gracefully

Example Prompt Snippet

Performance guidelines:
- For simple questions, answer in 1-2 sentences
- For complex tasks, outline your approach first, then execute
- Avoid repeating information the user already provided
- If multiple solutions exist, recommend the best one first, then list alternatives
- Batch related operations instead of handling them one at a time

💡 Pro Tips

•Measure token usage before and after optimization
•Use conditional depth — brief for simple queries, detailed for complex ones
•Avoid 'filler' instructions that add tokens without value