>> many small decisions

It’s making guesses not decisions, framing as decisions will lead you astray to wasted time and tokens.

It’s vaguely productive to tell them a ton of relevant info upfront attempting to minimise their need for load bearing guesses. I say vaguely because obedience is generally only around the level where it's good enough to lull you into a false sense of security, not to actually be obedient.

It’s a bit more productive to use the various loop mechanisms (hooks, /goal etc) to evaluate each end of turn against guard rails and reject with clear instruction on whats unacceptable. Obviously if you only do this without the front load of info then you’re likely to spend more tokens to reach a satisfactory end of iteration.

If I perfectly know all the guardrails I need, I don't need an LLM, only Prolog.