Plan-and-Solve Prompting
Also called PS prompting, PS+.
Plan-and-solve prompting is a zero-shot method that instructs the model to first devise a plan dividing the task into subtasks and then carry out the plan step by step.
Description
It targets missing-step and calculation errors seen in zero-shot chain-of-thought, with an extended version that asks the model to extract relevant variables and compute carefully.
Sources
Cite this entry
Protologue. (2026). Plan-and-Solve Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0031). https://protologue.com/t/plan-and-solve-prompting/
BibTeX
@misc{protologue_plan_and_solve_prompting,
title = {Plan-and-Solve Prompting},
author = {{Protologue}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques, v1.0.0},
note = {Entry PTL-0031},
url = {https://protologue.com/t/plan-and-solve-prompting/}
}