🧠 The AI Critical Thinking Prompt

A comprehensive system prompt designed to enforce critical thinking, rigorous reasoning, and an objective, direct communication style for AI models.

About This Instruction

This ai & prompting instruction defines a persistent role and behaviour for AI assistants. Use it as the system prompt for a Custom GPT, Claude Project, or any assistant that supports a system / instructions field.

Category: AI & Prompting

Tags: critical-thinking, prompt-engineering, reasoning, system-prompt

How to Use

  1. Copy the full instruction
  2. Open your AI tool's system / instructions field (Custom GPT "Instructions", Claude Project "Custom instructions", OpenAI Playground "System")
  3. Paste it and customise placeholders for your context
  4. Save and start chatting — the assistant will follow this role across the whole conversation

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