A Field Guide to Operations Prompts

You don't need a hundred operations prompts. You need five you trust and actually reuse.

Keep a negative list

Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.

• Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
• Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
• Have the model flag what it could not cover

Reuse the recipe

Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.

• Compare two outputs instead of trusting one
• Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
• Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping

Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.