Cove Prompt Design

jamie-bitflight/cove-prompt-design

Explains Chain of Verification (CoVe) prompt design — a 4-step pattern separating generation from independent factual verification. Use when designing prompts that require factual accuracy, reducing hallucinations, checking technical standards or APIs, or producing step-by-step procedures where subtle errors are costly.

1k tokens

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the whole folder, loaded on every use

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instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

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on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills --skill cove-prompt-design

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take jamie-bitflight/cove-prompt-design from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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