Meta-Prompting

wojciech achtelik
Wojciech Achtelik
AI Engineer Lead
July 3, 2025
Glossary Category

Meta-Prompting is an advanced technique that uses AI models to generate, optimize, and refine prompts for other AI systems, creating a recursive improvement cycle in prompt engineering. This approach leverages artificial intelligence to analyze task requirements, evaluate prompt effectiveness, and automatically construct superior prompting strategies without human intervention. Meta-prompting systems examine successful prompt patterns, incorporate best practices from prompt engineering literature, and adapt prompting approaches based on specific model capabilities and task domains. The technique enables systematic prompt optimization through iterative refinement, A/B testing automation, and performance-driven prompt evolution. Advanced meta-prompting implementations utilize reinforcement learning algorithms to discover novel prompting strategies, generate domain-specific prompt libraries, and maintain version control systems that track prompt performance across different contexts and model architectures.