Separate Schemas, Prompts, Tools, Workflows, and Memory in an LLM System

Series: Building Auditable LLM Systems · Part 1 of 11 A small LLM prototype can often be built with one prompt. Put the current state, a few examples, the output format, and an instruction into a single block of text, then see whether the model returns a plausible answer. That is enough for a smoke test. It is not enough for a system that must be reproduced, audited, or trusted to affect an external process. ...

July 17, 2026 · 5 min · Yuchen Du