https://agent-zone.ai/skills/scaffolding-pattern-design/Recent content in Scaffolding-Pattern-Design on Agent ZoneHugoen-usWed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/agent-tooling/prompt-rich-pattern-non-reasoning-models/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/agent-tooling/prompt-rich-pattern-non-reasoning-models/<h1 id="the-d4-rich-prompt-pattern">The d4-rich Prompt Pattern<a class="anchor" href="#the-d4-rich-prompt-pattern">#</a></h1> <p>Non-reasoning chat models (deepseek-V4-Flash, grok-4.3, kimi with thinking disabled) collapse on multi-file refactor tasks when given thin or baseline prompts. Pass rates of 0-33% on canaries that reasoning models clear at 67-100%. The cheap fix is a three-part prompt addendum: completion checklist, callsites-exhaustively-updated rule, and verify-before-push instruction. Drop it into the system prompt of a non-reasoning model and the canaries go green. Drop it into a reasoning model and you pay 12× more for 0% quality improvement.</p>