patterns

Patterns Directory

This directory contains the 24 canonical prompt specifications evaluated in PromptTransferX.

File naming

P{ID}_{snake_case_name}.md

Pattern metadata fields

Each file contains:

Field	Description
ID	Pattern identifier (P01–P24)
Name	Full pattern name
Category	Functional category (White et al. taxonomy)
Origin	Source paper/catalog
PromptPrism Level	Structural / Semantic / Pragmatic (Jeoung et al., 2025)
Volatility Class	I / II / II* / III / IV
Transfer	min/max PTS ratio with 95% bootstrapped CI
Restricted Transfer	Transfer excluding MedLLaMA-2
PSI	Pattern Stability Index = PTS(GPT-4o) − PTS(Mistral-7B)
Core Mechanism	One-sentence mechanism description
Canonical Specification	The V-A (primary) instantiation
Per-model PTS	Mean PTS per model with ±CI
Deployment Guidance	Practitioner recommendation

Volatility Class boundaries (revised post-pilot)

• Class I — Stable: Transfer ≥ 0.75
• Class II — Context-Sensitive: 0.60–0.74
• Class II* — Claude-Divergent: 0.60–0.74, with Claude-family fingerprint
• Class III — Model-Specific: 0.45–0.59
• Class IV — Brittle: < 0.45

Taxonomy correction: P14 (Transfer = 0.48) → Class III. P24 (Transfer = 0.60) → Class II. See docs/taxonomy_corrections.md.

PSI thresholds

PSI	Tier gap interpretation
< 0.15	Stable cross-tier
0.15–0.25	Context-sensitive
0.25–0.35	Model-specific
> 0.35	Brittle
Negative	Open-weight outperforms proprietary (P11 only)