Your question is Prompting Trade-offs for Agents. Take a moment with it on the right.
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You're building an agentic NLP system where a language model must decide when to answer directly, when to use tools, and how much reasoning to expose in the prompt. You are comparing prompt strategies for the same task and want to understand where each one helps or hurts.
Discuss the trade-offs between zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting in an agentic context.