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GPT-5.5 prompting guide
Teaches how to optimize prompts for GPT-5.5 by using outcome-first goals, defining personality and collaboration styles, managing retrieval budgets, and implementing preambles to improve latency and response quality.
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GPT-5.5 prompting guide
Teaches how to optimize prompts for GPT-5.5 by using outcome-first goals, defining personality and collaboration styles, managing retrieval budgets, and implementing preambles to improve latency and response quality.
When To Use
Use when you need to refactor legacy prompt stacks for GPT-5.5, reduce token latency via preambles, or control model behavior through explicit retrieval budgets and collaboration styles.
Reference Files
| File | Contains | Use For |
|---|---|---|
SKILL.md | Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow. | Start here. |
docs/gpt-5-prompting-guide-workflow-guide.md | A markdown guide detailing prompting strategies for GPT-5.5, including outcome-first goals, style controls, and retrieval budgets. | Questions about a markdown guide detailing prompting strategies for GPT-5.5, including outcome-first goals, style controls, and retri... |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide.text | A text-based guide outlining best practices and strategies for prompting GPT-5.5 models. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide outlining best practices and strategies for prompting GPT-5.5 models. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-openai-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-personality-instruc.text | A text guide outlining personality and behavioral instructions for prompting GPT-5.5 models. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text guide outlining personality and behavioral instructions for prompting GPT-5.5 models. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-openai-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-personality-instruc-2.text | A text guide outlining personality and conversational style instructions for prompting GPT-5.5. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text guide outlining personality and conversational style instructions for prompting GPT-5.5. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-multi-step-task-acknowledg.text | A text guide demonstrating how to instruct GPT-5.5 to provide user-visible updates before executing multi-step tool calls. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text guide demonstrating how to instruct GPT-5.5 to provide user-visible updates before executing multi-step tool c... |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-2.text | A text-based guide outlining prompting strategies and intermediary update requirements for GPT-5.5 models. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide outlining prompting strategies and intermediary update requirements for GPT-5.5 models. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-customer-issue-resolution.text | A text-based example demonstrating a structured prompt for resolving customer issues end-to-end using GPT-5.5. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based example demonstrating a structured prompt for resolving customer issues end-to-end using GPT-5.5. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-chain-of-thought.text | A text example demonstrating a multi-step chain-of-thought prompting technique for complex reasoning and tool selection. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text example demonstrating a multi-step chain-of-thought prompting technique for complex reasoning and tool selection. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-3.text | A text-based guide outlining prompting strategies and best practices for the GPT-5.5 model. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide outlining prompting strategies and best practices for the GPT-5.5 model. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-4.text | A text-based guide outlining best practices and principles for prompting GPT-5.5 models. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide outlining best practices and principles for prompting GPT-5.5 models. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-openai-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-formatting-best-pra.text | A text guide outlining best practices for using formatting like headers, bold text, and lists to improve comprehension in GPT-5.5 prompts. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text guide outlining best practices for using formatting like headers, bold text, and lists to improve comprehensio... |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-5.text | A text-based guide containing prompting strategies and stylistic instructions for GPT-5.5. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide containing prompting strategies and stylistic instructions for GPT-5.5. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-6.text | A text-based guide outlining best practices and instructions for prompting GPT-5.5 models. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide outlining best practices and instructions for prompting GPT-5.5 models. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-7.text | A text-based guide outlining strategic prompting techniques and search retrieval patterns for GPT-5.5. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide outlining strategic prompting techniques and search retrieval patterns for GPT-5.5. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-openai-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-creative-generative.text | A guide outlining how to distinguish source-backed facts from creative wording when using GPT-5.5 for generative tasks like outbound copy and summaries. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A guide outlining how to distinguish source-backed facts from creative wording when using GPT-5.5 for generative task... |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-openai-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-validation-instruct.text | A text guide outlining validation steps and error explanation protocols for GPT-5.5 prompting workflows. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text guide outlining validation steps and error explanation protocols for GPT-5.5 prompting workflows. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-openai-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide.text | A text-based guide outlining best practices and strategies for prompting GPT-5.5 models. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide outlining best practices and strategies for prompting GPT-5.5 models. |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-openai-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-implementation-plan.text | A text-based guide outlining specific requirements and structural elements to include when writing prompts for implementation plans. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text-based guide outlining specific requirements and structural elements to include when writing prompts for implem... |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-assistant-phase-replay-ins.text | Instructions for manually replaying assistant items by preserving phase values and using specific phase labels for commentary and final answers. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in Instructions for manually replaying assistant items by preserving phase values and using specific phase labels for co... |
examples/gpt-5-prompting-guide-gpt-5-5-prompting-guide-role-personality-goal-stru.text | A text template demonstrating the structured prompting framework including role, personality, goal, success criteria, constraints, and output specifications for GPT-5.5. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A text template demonstrating the structured prompting framework including role, personality, goal, success criteria,... |
What This Skill Covers
- Prompt GPT-5.5 with outcome-first goals, concise style controls, retrieval budgets, and validation loops.
- Main sections:
New in GPT-5.5 vs GPT-5.4,Automated migration with Codex,Personality and behavior,Improve time to first visible token with a preamble,Outcome-first prompts and stopping conditions.
Workflow
- Open the most relevant file under
docs/for the exact documented workflow and wording. - Open
schemas/files for exact structured contracts. - Open
examples/files for concrete requests, commands, snippets, and manifests. - Do not add behavior or configuration that is not present in the attached source files.
Canonical source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/prompt-guidance.md