failureMode: wrong-format excerpt: "Table pls" works once your model knows what your tables look like.

Format prompts are infrastructure prompts

"Table pls" looks lazy. It is. It also works fine when the surrounding work has established what a table means in your context.

Markdown table? CSV? A rendered React component? Without prior examples in the workspace, the model picks one and you re-prompt to correct. With prior examples, the format is implicit.

The prescriptive version (columns named, sort order chosen, alignment specified) is what you write when you don't have the prior examples. The shorthand is what you write when you do.

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