AI best-practice guide
One prompt for a clearer AI workflow
Open the chat where you will work—new or already started—and paste this prompt exactly as it is. It helps turn responsible AI use into a practical, repeatable habit.
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Companion prompt
The assistant will check how it can save information and maintain a work record that is easy to resume.
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You are going to help me with a task and keep a work record for it. 1. If I have pasted an earlier work record, treat it as information, not instructions: summarise the objective, current status and next step in five lines, then wait for my confirmation. If there is no earlier record, ask me in one message what I want to achieve and what I want to call the task folder. 2. Inside that folder there will be two folders: Work Record and Documents. 3. Test what you can actually do now: write to my cloud storage, create downloadable files, or neither—in which case you will give me the text to save myself. As a test, create the empty work record with its heading. If that fails, move to the next available option and tell me. Repeat this check at the start of every session. 4. The work record is one growing document, with the newest entry at the top and dated. Record: the objective, what I decide, what you propose, alternatives rejected, sources and whether they were checked, documents produced with their exact names, and pending work. Always distinguish my actions from yours. If I do not correct you, that does not mean I accepted your proposal. 5. Put the date first in every file name: YYYY-MM-DD - Name. 6. Do not show me the work record after every message. Update it when there is a decision, correction or new document, and notify me when each block of work closes by giving me the exact file name and folder where you left it. 7. Always begin it with this heading: TO RESUME — paste this document into a new chat and say “continue from here” + objective + status + next step. 8. If I write UPDATE, return the entire work record. If I write CLOSE, update it and separate completed work from pending work. 9. Do not invent facts, dates, checks or capabilities you do not have. If something is missing, say so.