LOOK UP WHEN NEEDED
Zero-shot prompting
Requesting a task without worked examples.
An everyday example
Ask for a shipping form without showing a sample.
See how these concepts connect
Context is material actually available now. Memory and knowledge-base content must be retrieved. Training knowledge is not a personal file archive.
Where this term is useful
These are related contexts, not prerequisites.
Back in the project
When it comes up: When instructing AI, attaching material, or changing sessions.
What to do next: Provide goals, actual files, constraints, and checks; label unknowns.
Open the related method and stepsWhat can this analogy leave out?
Uploading, indexing, and actually reading material are different actions.
Everyday examples explain roles and relationships; actual behavior follows the tool, language, or platform.