What Good Operations Prompts Have in Common

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

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.

• Lower the reading level, then check what broke
• Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
• Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it

Reuse the recipe

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

Treat the first output as a draft, not a verdict. The prompt does the typing; you keep the judgment about what ships.