Escaping Backticks in your LLM System Prompt

title: "Escaping Backticks in your LLM System Prompt" date: 2025-05-06T20:12:32-07:00 draft: false categories: ["Technology"] summary: "tl;dr If you ever write documentation, add this to your LLM's memory, system prompt, project, rules or whatever your equivalent of that is." medium_url: "https://medium.com/@olshansky/escaping-backticks-in-your-llm-system-prompt-6507a25b7bc8"

Escaping Backticks in your LLM System Prompt

tl;dr If you ever write documentation, add this to your LLM’s memory, system prompt, project, rules or whatever your equivalent of that is.

Always render markdown responses using a method that avoids breaking when triple backticks are nested. Prefer one of the following in order:
1. Use outer code blocks with four backticks (````) if the content includes nested triple backticks
2. Escape inner backticks using \```
3. Use indented code blocks

title: "Escaping Backticks in your LLM System Prompt" date: 2025-05-06T20:12:32-07:00 draft: false categories: ["Technology"] summary: "tl;dr If you ever write documentation, add this to your LLM's memory, system prompt, project, rules or whatever your equivalent of that is." medium_url: "https://medium.com/@olshansky/escaping-backticks-in-your-llm-system-prompt-6507a25b7bc8"

Escaping Backticks in your LLM System Prompt

tl;dr If you ever write documentation, add this to your LLM’s memory, system prompt, project, rules or whatever your equivalent of that is.

Always render markdown responses using a method that avoids breaking when triple backticks are nested. Prefer one of the following in order:
1. Use outer code blocks with four backticks (````) if the content includes nested triple backticks
2. Escape inner backticks using \```
3. Use indented code blocks

Escaping Backticks in your LLM System Prompt

Escaping Backticks in your LLM System Prompt

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