You don't need a hundred operations prompts. You need five you trust and actually reuse.
Generate options, not answers
Treat the first output as a draft, not a verdict. The prompt does the typing; you keep the judgment about what ships.
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
Start with the smallest version
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.