{
  "id": "thread-of-thought",
  "code": "PTL-0039",
  "term": "Thread of Thought",
  "aliases": [],
  "category": "reasoning",
  "definition": "Thread of Thought is a prompting strategy for long, chaotic contexts that asks the model to walk through the context in manageable parts, summarizing and analyzing each before answering.",
  "description": "A typical trigger asks the model to go through the context step by step, summarizing and analyzing as it goes.",
  "example": null,
  "broader": [
    "chain-of-thought"
  ],
  "narrower": [],
  "related": [
    "lost-in-the-middle",
    "system-2-attention"
  ],
  "introduced": 2023,
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Thread of Thought Unraveling Chaotic Contexts",
      "authors": "Zhou et al.",
      "year": 2023,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08734"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://protologue.com/t/thread-of-thought/",
  "citation": "Protologue. (2026). Thread of Thought. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0039). https://protologue.com/t/thread-of-thought/"
}