Glossary
Chain of thought — Glossary
Prompting or training patterns that encourage step-by-step intermediate problem solving.
Also known as: CoT
Full definition
Chain-of-thought techniques can improve some multi-step benchmarks by eliciting intermediate work. They do not guarantee correctness, and fluent steps can still be wrong.
Use high-level, verifiable plans and tools for exact math. Do not attempt to extract private hidden reasoning channels beyond what a product intentionally exposes.