# Cisco AI Introduces FAPO: Pipeline-Aware Prompt Optimization With Step-Level Failure Attribution and Claude Code Orchestration

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> Published: 2026-06-20 23:04:55+00:00

Cisco Foundation AI has open-sourced FAPO (Fully Automated Prompt Optimization), a Claude Code-driven system that autonomously optimizes multi-step LLM pipelines from baseline prompts to target accuracy. FAPO evaluates a chain, attributes failures at the step level, proposes variants across prompt, parameter, and chain-structure levels, and validates each through an independent reviewer. In Cisco's evaluation, it beat GEPA on 15 of 18 model-benchmark comparisons. Here's how the optimization loop works and how to run it.

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