Structure Instructions with Clear Markdown Delimiters (AI Skill)

Overview

When a prompt is written as a continuous, unformatted block of stream-of-consciousness text, the AI's attention mechanism easily conflates instructions ("Do not include pricing") with data context ("Here is the pricing document").

The Markdown Delimiter Protocol uses clear typography - Markdown headers, bullet lists, code blocks, and XML tags - to cleanly segregate system instructions from background data, eliminating ambiguity.

Chaotic Wall of Text vs. Delimited Structure