AnalysisAI ModelsJuly 13, 2026

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 prompting guide: stop over-prompting

OpenAI published a prompting guide for GPT-5.6 Sol that advises trimming system prompts. Internal tests showed leaner prompts improved eval scores by 10–15% while cutting tokens by 41–66% and costs by 33–67%. The guide introduces Programmatic Tool Calling and the text.verbosity API parameter.

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