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5555## Advanced techniques

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57* **Chain-of-thought verification**: Ask Claude to explain its reasoning step-by-step before giving a final answer. This can reveal faulty logic or assumptions.

57* **Chain-of-thought verification**: Use [thinking](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/thinking) with `display: "summarized"`, and review the summarized reasoning in the `thinking` blocks when an answer looks wrong. This can reveal faulty logic or assumptions.

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5959* **Best-of-N verification**: Run Claude through the same prompt multiple times and compare the outputs. Inconsistencies across outputs could indicate hallucinations.

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