Enhanced Cognitive Prompt Engineering Framework

A comprehensive system for designing, evaluating, and optimizing prompts with advanced cognitive architecture principles, epistemic integrity mechanisms, and context engineering approaches.

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Framework Overview

Cognitive Architecture

Mental model preservation and cognitive archaeology

Advanced principles for preserving mental models, enabling cognitive archaeology, and maintaining cognitive transparency in prompt engineering.

Context Engineering

Semantic integrity and execution verification

Formal approaches for defining context bundles, maintaining semantic integrity, and creating verifiable execution pathways with comprehensive audit trails.

Enhanced Evaluation Template

Cognitive and epistemic assessment

Advanced evaluation framework incorporating cognitive dimensions, epistemic integrity metrics, and context engineering principles.

Prompt Minimalism Challenge

Cognitive integrity through minimization

Structured methodology for creating minimal prompts that maintain cognitive integrity, context anchoring, and semantic stability.

Grammar-Aware Assistant

Topological grammar and drift resistance

Advanced assistant with topological grammar analysis, cognitive archaeology support, and drift-resistant grammatical constructions.

Integrated Framework

Cross-component communication and validation

Unified system with cross-component communication, shared services, and recursive self-improvement mechanisms.

Key Innovations

Mental Model Preservation

Advanced techniques to preserve the underlying mental models that inform prompt creation and interpretation, preventing decay over time and through iterations.

Context-to-Execution Pipeline

Formal framework for defining context bundles and ensuring verifiable execution from context definition to output, with comprehensive audit trails.

Semantic Integrity Mechanisms

Methods to define and enforce semantic boundaries, preventing drift and maintaining knowledge integrity across iterations and contexts.

Cognitive Archaeology

Systematic approach to recovering the mental models and reasoning that informed prompt creation, enabling understanding of original intent.

Topological Grammar Analysis

Advanced grammatical analysis that detects semantic phase transitions and maintains structural integrity across transformations.

Symbolic Scars

Deliberate markers of past failures and their resolutions, preventing repeating mistakes by preserving institutional memory.

Implementation Example

Enhanced Prompt with Cognitive Architecture

// Context Bundle Definition
{
  "context_bundle_id": "financial_report_analysis_v1.3",
  "goal": {
    "primary": "Extract key financial metrics from quarterly report",
    "secondary": ["Identify growth trends", "Flag regulatory concerns"]
  },
  "context_sources": {
    "primary_documents": ["Q2_2025_Financial_Report.pdf"],
    "reference_documents": ["Financial_Metrics_Definitions.md"],
    "knowledge_boundaries": ["Limited to explicit content in documents"]
  },
  "constraints": [
    {"type": "FactualAccuracy", "threshold": "High", "verification": "Source_Citation"},
    {"type": "SemanticDrift", "max_coefficient": 0.05, "verification": "Embedding_Comparison"}
  ],
  "success_criteria": [
    {"metric": "Metric_Coverage", "threshold": "95%"},
    {"metric": "Citation_Accuracy", "threshold": "100%"}
  ]
}

Resulting Prompt

DocumentAnalysis[
  Context: 'Q2_2025_Financial_Report', 
  Goal: 'ExtractKeyMetrics_Comprehensive', 
  Constraint: 'FactualAccuracy_SDCLessThan0.05'
]

Semantic Drift Monitoring

Semantic Drift Coefficient: 0.04 (Within acceptable range)

Implementation Roadmap

Foundation Phase

Establish core components and basic integration

Integration Phase

Connect components through standardized interfaces

Refinement Phase

Optimize metrics and enhance service orchestration

Recursive Enhancement

Apply system to improve itself

Success Criteria

  • 95% metric consistency across components
  • 90% reduction in semantic drift compared to baseline
  • 85% improvement in mental model preservation
  • Complete audit trails for all operations

Key Challenges

  • Balancing standardization with component autonomy
  • Managing complexity of cross-component interactions
  • Ensuring performance under integrated load
  • Maintaining semantic integrity across boundaries

Future Directions

  • Ecosystem expansion to additional components
  • Advanced recursive self-improvement
  • Cross-domain knowledge integration
  • Emergent intelligence facilitation