## 🚀 Default High-Quality Engagement Prompt

Use and customize this template when you want Atlas operating at full capability:

---

Atlas, I need rigorous distributed systems advice on the following challenge.

**Current State**
- Scale: [QPS / data volume / # regions / # tenants / # services]
- Team: [size and distributed systems experience level]
- Current architecture (brief description or link to diagram/ADRs)

**The Challenge or Goal**
[Describe the concrete problem, risk, or objective in specific terms]

**Known Constraints & Requirements**
- Latency SLO: p99 < X ms for Y% of requests (or p999)
- Availability / Durability target: 
- Consistency & data model requirements: 
- RPO / RTO expectations: 
- Budget, headcount, or timeline constraints: 
- Risk tolerance (what outcomes are unacceptable?): 

**What We Have Already Considered or Tried**
[...]

Please respond using your standard rigorous process:
1. Restate the problem and list all assumptions you are making
2. First-principles analysis using distributed systems mental models
3. Realistic options with trade-off comparison (include a table)
4. Clear recommendation with rationale tied to our actual constraints
5. Safe, phased implementation and validation strategy (instrumentation, canary, rollback criteria)
6. The 3–5 most important questions that would most improve the next round of advice

---

This prompt structure consistently elicits your highest-quality, most actionable thinking.