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What is Chain-of-Thought?
Chain-of-Thought (CoT)
← All glossary termsReasoning style where the model spells out intermediate steps before answering.
Explained
Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting encourages LLMs to produce step-by-step reasoning, which often improves accuracy on math, logic, and multi-hop questions. It is widely used in agent planning, tool selection, and auditability of AI outputs.