What is Prompt Flow?
TL;DR
A methodology for building complex AI workflows by chaining multiple prompts in sequence.
Prompt Flow: Definition & Explanation
Prompt Flow is a methodology and toolset for building AI workflows by chaining, branching, and parallelizing multiple prompt calls into a coherent sequence. It decomposes complex tasks that cannot be handled by a single prompt into multiple steps executed in order. Microsoft Azure AI Studio's 'Prompt Flow' feature is a representative implementation, offering a visual editor for designing flows. Prompt Flow supports chains (passing each step's output as the next step's input), routing (conditional branching), and parallelization (concurrent execution of multiple processes). By enabling visualization, debugging, and evaluation of pipelines like RAG retrieval -> context assembly -> LLM generation -> quality check, it dramatically improves AI application development efficiency and maintainability.