GLM 5.3 Prompt Generator
Generate optimized prompts for Z.ai's GLM 5.3 — the August 2026 release that leads open models on Terminal-Bench 3.0 and tops CyberGym for security work. Pick High or Max thinking-effort, set your task horizon, and let AI craft an ambiguity-killing brief that takes full advantage of GLM's 1M-token context and terminal-agent training.
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Generated Prompt
Fill in the form and click "Generate" to create an optimized GLM 5.3 prompt.
Tip: The more specific your task description and context, the better the generated prompt will perform.
GLM 5.3 Tips
- • With GLM the prompt's job is to REDUCE AMBIGUITY, not to inspire — state goal, boundaries, inputs, and success criteria explicitly
- • GLM 5.3 was post-trained for TERMINAL-DRIVEN agent work — name the working directory, the repo layout, and every tool it may call
- • For complex multi-file coding and security analysis, switch to Max effort — Z.ai's own guidance for the hardest tasks
- • Thinking is always on: don't pad the prompt with "think harder", raise the effort level instead
- • Use the 1M-token context: paste the whole codebase or full docs, then put your instruction AFTER the context
- • State acceptance criteria ("must compile", "all tests pass", "every finding includes a reproduction") — GLM follows them reliably
GLM 5.3 Prompt Templates
Copy-ready starting points for the most common jobs people bring to this model. Swap the [BRACKETED] parts for your own details, or use them as a shape to imitate when you write your own.
Terminal Agent Task
AgenticThe work GLM 5.3 was specifically post-trained for.
## Goal [THE END STATE, e.g. all integration tests passing against the new schema] ## Environment Working directory: [PATH]. Repo layout: [BRIEF LAYOUT]. Stack: [LANGUAGE, FRAMEWORK, VERSIONS]. ## Available tools - Shell: run any command in the working directory - File system: read and write project files - [OTHER TOOLS] ## Plan Decompose roughly as: [STEP 1] → [STEP 2] → [STEP 3]. Adjust if the repo contradicts this. ## Constraints - Do not modify [PROTECTED PATHS]. - Run the test suite after each change rather than at the end. - Stop and report if [STOP CONDITION]. ## Success Criteria [e.g. `npm test` exits 0, no new lint errors, diff touches fewer than N files]
Whole-Repo Refactor
EngineeringFull spec up front — GLM does badly on drip-fed requirements.
## Goal Refactor [WHAT] across the repository so that [DESIRED END STATE]. ## Context [PASTE REPO TREE OR THE RELEVANT FILES] ## Constraints - Language and version: [X]. Framework: [Y]. Formatter/linter: [Z]. - Preserve all public APIs unless listed below as intentional breaks: [BREAKS]. - No new dependencies. ## Output Format 1. Migration plan: files touched, in what order, and why. 2. Full revised contents for each changed file. 3. Anything deliberately left alone, with the reason. ## Success Criteria Compiles clean, existing tests pass, no behaviour change outside the listed breaks.
Security Review
SecurityGLM 5.3 tops CyberGym — give it a threat model and an evidence bar.
## Goal Audit the code below for exploitable vulnerabilities. ## Threat model Attacker profile: [e.g. unauthenticated internet user]. Assets at risk: [ASSETS]. Trust boundary: [BOUNDARY]. ## Scope In scope: [PATHS]. Out of scope: [PATHS]. Do not attempt to exploit anything outside the scope. ## What to hunt Prioritise [CLASSES, e.g. injection, broken access control, deserialisation, secrets handling]. ## Evidence standard Every reported finding must include: the vulnerable line, a concrete exploitation path, the impact, and a fix. Mark anything speculative as "unconfirmed" rather than reporting it as a finding. ## Output Format Findings ordered by severity, then a short summary of what you checked and found clean. ## Code [PASTE CODE]
Long-Context Analysis
AnalysisPaste the corpus first, instruction after — the 1M-token pattern.
[PASTE THE FULL CODEBASE, LOG SET OR DOCUMENT CORPUS] --- ## Goal Based on everything above, [THE TASK, e.g. map every place user input reaches the database]. ## Constraints - Reference file paths and line numbers for every claim. - Where the material is ambiguous, say so rather than guessing. ## Output Format [e.g. a table of Source → Path → Sink, then a narrative summary] ## Success Criteria Complete coverage — explicitly state if you believe any area of the input was not fully examined.
Bug Reproduction & Fix
EngineeringVerification criteria stated up front, which GLM follows reliably.
## Goal Reproduce and fix this bug: [SYMPTOM]. ## Context Expected: [EXPECTED]. Actual: [ACTUAL]. Repro steps: [STEPS]. Environment: [ENV]. [PASTE RELEVANT CODE AND STACK TRACE] ## Plan 1. Write a failing test that captures the bug. 2. Find the root cause — not the nearest symptom. 3. Fix it. 4. Confirm the new test passes and no existing test breaks. ## Constraints - Minimal diff. Do not refactor surrounding code. - If the root cause is in a dependency, say so rather than patching around it. ## Success Criteria New test fails before the fix and passes after; full suite green.
API Design Spec
EngineeringAmbiguity-killing structure, GLM's preferred input shape.
## Goal Design [WHAT, e.g. a REST API for the billing service]. ## Context Consumers: [WHO]. Expected load: [LOAD]. Existing conventions: [CONVENTIONS]. Data model: [MODEL]. ## Constraints - Style: [REST/GraphQL/gRPC], [AUTH SCHEME], versioning via [SCHEME]. - Must support [HARD REQUIREMENTS]. - Must not [PROHIBITIONS]. ## Output Format 1. Endpoint table: method, path, purpose. 2. Request/response schemas for each. 3. Error model. 4. Three design decisions you made and the alternative you rejected. ## Success Criteria Every consumer use case listed above is satisfiable with the endpoints given.
GLM Update Log
GLM 5.3
● LatestAugust 14, 2026- A specialist release, not a general chat upgrade: GLM 5.3 runs on the SAME 744B-parameter MoE base as 5.2 (~40B active per token), with every gain coming from scaled post-training — more task environments, more environment types and longer training runs.
- Post-training focused squarely on terminal-driven agent tasks, long-horizon software engineering and security analysis.
- Terminal-Bench 3.0 jumped from 4.6 to 28.3 — a 6.2x improvement and the top score among open models.
- Aggregate coding improved ~50% over GLM 5.2 on Z.ai Code Bench (34.5% at Max effort vs 23.4%), while using fewer output tokens to get there (~75K vs ~96K).
- Leads CyberGym at 84.5%, ahead of Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and tops Agent's Last Exam (28.5) and AutomationBench (48.2). DeepSWE 1.1 lands at 66.9% and ExploitBench at 54.4%.
- Keeps the 1M-token lossless context window and extends output to 128K tokens.
- Rollout was staged: GLM Coding Plan and ZCode access from launch day, with the general API and open weights following after a safety evaluation — a change from 5.2, which shipped open on day one.
GLM 5.2
June 13, 2026- 744B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model released under a permissive MIT license with no regional restrictions — the base GLM 5.3 still builds on.
- Usable 1M-token context window (~5× GLM 5.1's ~200K) with output up to 131,072 tokens — paste an entire mid-sized codebase or full doc set without chunking.
- New selectable thinking-effort: High for fast everyday code & summaries, Max for slow, deliberate reasoning on complex multi-file coding and long agentic chains.
- Benchmark jumps: 81.0 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 62.1 on SWE-bench Pro — substantially ahead of GLM 5.1 and closing the gap to closed-source frontier models.
- Positioned for long-horizon, agentic software engineering: writing, running, and revising code across a whole project.
GLM 5.1
Previous release- ~200K-token context window and a single reasoning path (no selectable effort level).
- Strong general coding and reasoning, but shorter agentic horizons than 5.2.
How to Use the Prompt Generator
Define Your Task
Select a category and describe what you want GLM to do. Choose your thinking-effort — High for fast everyday work, Max for complex multi-step coding and long agentic chains — and set the task horizon.
Add Context & Constraints
Paste the repo structure, full docs, or long source material into context — GLM's 1M-token window handles it. Name available tools for agentic tasks, set the output format, and state your acceptance criteria.
Generate & Use
Click "Generate" to get an ambiguity-killing prompt tailored to your effort level. Copy and paste it into chat.z.ai, the Z.ai API, or any self-hosted GLM deployment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is GLM 5.3?
GLM 5.3 is Z.ai's (Zhipu AI) flagship model, released August 14, 2026. It is a 744-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with roughly 40B active parameters per token, a 1-million-token lossless context window and up to 128K output. It is not a general chat upgrade — it is a specialist for terminal-driven agent tasks, long-horizon software engineering and security analysis, where it writes, runs and revises code across an entire project.
What changed between GLM 5.2 and GLM 5.3?
The base model did not change at all — GLM 5.3 runs on the same 744B MoE weights as 5.2. Every gain came from scaled post-training: more task environments, more environment types and longer training runs, aimed at terminal agents, long-horizon software engineering and security work. The results are lopsided in favour of agentic coding: Terminal-Bench 3.0 went from 4.6 to 28.3, aggregate coding rose about 50% on Z.ai Code Bench, and it now leads CyberGym at 84.5%. For ordinary chat, summarisation or writing, the difference is small.
How should I prompt GLM 5.3?
The prompt's job with GLM is to reduce ambiguity, not to be inspiring. Give it explicit structure: goal, context, constraints, inputs, output format and success criteria. For coding, name the language, framework, versions, repo structure and the exact expected behaviour. For agentic work — which is what 5.3 was tuned for — name the working directory, the rough decomposition and every tool it may call. Paste long context first and put your instruction after it. Thinking is always on, so raise the effort level rather than padding the prompt with "think harder".
How does this prompt generator work?
You provide structured inputs — task, role, context, thinking-effort, task horizon and output format. Our AI applies GLM 5.3-specific best practices: ambiguity-killing structure, effort-aware framing (High tight and answer-shaped; Max with explicit planning and self-verification), terminal and tool naming for agentic tasks, threat-model framing for security work, and instruction-after-context placement for the 1M-token window.
Is this tool free to use?
Yes. You get 1 free prompt generation per day with no signup required. For unlimited access, sign up for a Promptslove membership which includes all AI tools and 20,000+ premium prompts.
What is GLM 5.3 best at?
Terminal-driven agent work and long-horizon software engineering — multi-file refactors, end-to-end features, and tasks where the model writes, runs and revises code across a whole project from a shell. It is also unusually strong at security analysis: it tops CyberGym at 84.5% and scores 54.4% on ExploitBench, making it a genuine option for vulnerability discovery and code review. The 1M-token context suits whole-codebase analysis, and Max effort is the setting for the hardest multi-step work.
Is GLM 5.3 open source?
Eventually, but not on day one. GLM 5.2 shipped open under MIT with no regional restrictions; GLM 5.3 was released in stages instead — GLM Coding Plan and ZCode users got access at launch, with the general API and the open weights following roughly two weeks later after a safety evaluation, a caution tied to its cyber capabilities. Check Z.ai or Hugging Face for the current status. Prompts from this generator work the same on the hosted API and on self-hosted weights.
Can I use these prompts with other AI tools?
Yes. The generated prompts follow universal prompt-engineering principles and work well with Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, and MiniMax. The effort-mode and agentic-decomposition framing is GLM-specific but degrades gracefully on other platforms.
How many prompts can I generate for free?
You get 1 free prompt generation every 24 hours. This resets automatically. For unlimited generations, consider signing up for a Promptslove membership.
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