Promptles
Multi-Step

Pass Context Between Tools

Hand one tool's output deliberately to the next.

Real work spans tools: an email becomes a calendar hold, a document becomes a digest, a thread becomes a ticket. Don't assume the agent will carry the right details across the gap. Name what travels from one step to the next, the date and attendees from the email, the decision from the doc, the summary into the channel, so each tool gets exactly the input it needs. The hand-off is where multi-tool workflows quietly break.

Where you'll practice this

2 Promptles scenarios teach this principle directly. Each one drops you into a real engineering ticket and asks you to write the prompt you'd send to Claude Code.

  • Email Into a Calendar Hold

    A prospect emailed: 'Could we find 30 minutes next week to walk through the rollout? Mornings are best for me.' You want Claude to take it from there, read the email, pull out what matters, check your availability, and come back with a proposed hold plus a draft reply offering…

  • Turn Support Email Into Issues

    Five bug reports landed in support@ overnight. You want Claude to turn each one into a proper Linear issue and then reply to the customer with a link to track it. The catch is the hand-off: each email's real detail, the symptom, the steps to reproduce, the customer, the…

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