Homebrew CoT for gemini 3 flash

Hey, I’m new to the more tech side of Ai but a few days ago, i made a prompt to make gemini 3 flash have a reasoning mode (outside of its built in analysis) that’s able to be turned on and off, i gave it a framework on how to think step by step and prompted it to stick to those thinking steps analysis, context breakdown, doing what reasoning models do without using a reasoning model. I did this because in conversation it’d gloss over things i said that had a second meaning, and i couldn’t afford to pay for thinking models (the free tier isn’t enough for me.) after my homemade thought process, it could understand and tell multiple layers within my sentences without me clarifying and it had a significantly improved ability to be more smart and intuitive in conversation. Is this a skill, did i do something impressive, i need some help figuring things out, thanks.