A Modular Framework for Prompt Design in High-Stakes Contexts
Most prompts break when they matter most:
- Key constraints get forgotten, causing factual errors or tone drift
- Five rounds of back-and-forth when it should be one clean prompt
- Manual updates across dozens of similar prompts when something changes
The pattern is always the same: unclear structure leads to unclear results.
What ECHO Is
ECHO is a modular framework for building prompts that survive versioning, reuse, scaling, regulation, and change.
Every ECHO prompt follows the same sequence:
Context: What situation is this responding to?
Perspective (optional): What worldview shapes this response?
Role: Who’s speaking and from what position?
Instruction: What specific task should be performed?
Guidelines: What tone, style, and constraints apply?
Guardrail: What must be avoided?
Output Instructions: What format and structure?
Output Example (optional): What does good output look like?
Self Check (optional): How should the model verify its work?
The order and structure matters. Without it, prompts blend, contradict, or leak logic. With it, they can be edited, versioned, and reused without breaking.
Who It’s For
ECHO is for anyone who’s moved beyond “just write a prompt”:
- Content teams managing tone consistency across channels
- AI leads building reusable prompt libraries
- Compliance teams needing traceable, auditable outputs
- Service designers scaling conversational experiences
- Anyone who needs to explain why a prompt failed, or prove it won’t
What You Get
The public version includes:
- Complete ECHO component design structure (prompt standard)
- Core prompt recipes examples (under construction, currently unavailable)
- Free license to use and adapt
You can find the full documentation on GitHub (under construction, always)
Not included:
- Metadata scaffolding for enterprise deployment
- Internal scoring and evaluation logic
- Lifecycle automation workflows
- Advanced governance tooling
- Implementation methods
- And more…
Those aren’t hidden features, they’re infrastructure for when ECHO becomes organizational, not just personal.
Use It
You’re free to use ECHO in your work (license >). Copy it, adapt it and make it fit.
Just include:
ECHO Framework by Xaviera Ringeling
What’s Next
More detailed guides coming:
- Writing effective Context components
- When and how to use Perspective
- Guidelines vs Guardrails: the key differences
ECHO doesn’t solve everything, but it does hold when things shift.