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Technical English
Rewrite technical instructions using ASD-STE100 guidance.
Caveman
Use terse chat fragments while keeping technical meaning clear.
Clear prose
Tighten a passage while keeping its content and voice.
Brief replies
Give a direct, useful answer to an everyday question.
Short email
Shorten an email while keeping its request and courtesy.
Faithful summary
Condense a source's main message, evidence, and qualifications.
Decision brief
Frame a choice, its tradeoff, and the action needed.
Release notes
Explain released changes and what users need to do.
Context handoff
Keep the task state another agent needs to continue the work.
UI copy
Shorten interface labels while preserving actions and consequences.
Caveman commits
Write a terse commit subject with essential reasons below it.
Caveman reviews
Trim each review comment to its location, problem, and useful fix.
Caveman memory files
Compress context files while preserving literals and structure.
Sparse priming
Compress concept-heavy text into a list of meaningful memory cues.
Transcript gist
Summarize a transcript's substance with useful source timestamps.
Refine a summary
Update an existing summary only with useful new source information.
Rolling conversation summary
Fold new chat turns into a compact conversation summary.
Search keywords
Turn a question into useful search terms and retrieval constraints.
User facts
Extract explicit user facts and preferences from a chat as JSON.
Micro summary
Give one sentence, three main points, and three takeaways.
Five levels
Express one idea in five, four, three, two, and one word.
Core message
State the central argument in one short sentence.
Meeting notes
Separate meeting discussion, decisions, tasks, and unresolved risks.
Paper brief
Summarize a paper's method, evidence, novelty, and limitations.
Pull request digest
Turn several pull requests into a readable change overview.
Diff summary
Describe a code diff with a title and short change bullets.
Extract wisdom
Extract useful ideas, insights, quotes, and recommendations.
Recommendations
Extract practical actions from a longer source.
Transcript steps
Extract ordered tutorial steps with prerequisites and warnings.
Lecture notes
Organize a lecture into timestamped topics and definitions.
Prediction ledger
Extract forecasts with dates, confidence, and ways to check them.
Academic tightening
Tighten academic prose while preserving claims, data, and citations.
Article brief
Explain an article's argument, evidence, and implications briefly.
Book notes
Condense a book into concepts, examples, and practical takeaways.
Short titles
Generate five short titles that preserve the topic and language.
Translated synopsis
Condense a film or series synopsis in Turkish or a chosen language.
Email thread
Catch up on an email chain: topic, decisions, and your next action.
Sprint summary
Group team updates into completed work, blockers, and next plans.
Weekly highlights
Keep a week's wins, priorities, and risks for a manager.
Bug report
Turn a defect narrative into a report developers can triage.
Error message
State an error's cause, consequence, and recovery in less space.
Incident update
Report an active incident's impact, response, and next checkpoint.
Incident postmortem
Summarize a completed incident, causes, response, and follow-up.
Reproduction steps
Extract the shortest supplied steps that still reproduce a defect.
API reference
Shorten endpoint documentation while preserving its API contract.
CLI help
Shorten command help while preserving syntax, defaults, and hazards.
Code comments
Trim code comments while retaining intent, invariants, and warnings.
Architecture decision
Condense a design decision, its reasons, and its tradeoffs.
Migration guide
Keep upgrade steps in order, with required changes and warnings.
Test failure
Extract a failing assertion, environment, and diagnostic evidence.
Benchmark results
Summarize measured performance with test conditions and limits.
Query plan
Summarize a database plan's costly operators and supporting evidence.
Dependency update
Summarize a package upgrade, compatibility, checks, and open work.
Configuration guide
Trim setup guidance while preserving values, precedence, and effects.
Security advisory
Keep an advisory's exposure limits, affected versions, and mitigation.
Deprecation notice
State what will retire, who is affected, and when and how to move.
Runbook brief
Shorten an operating procedure while keeping gates and stop rules.
Schema change
Explain a data-model change, compatibility, sequence, and checks.
Log digest
Group repeated log events into a timeline with honest counts.
Stack trace
Keep an exception's error chain and useful application frames.
Support ticket
Condense a support thread into its issue, evidence, and current state.
Customer reply
Shorten a customer reply with its answer, limits, and next step.
Product feedback
Group feedback by user problem without promising requested features.
Interview findings
Condense research interviews into traceable, cautious findings.
Survey summary
Report survey results with denominators, scope, and uncertainty.
Project status
Report project progress, variance, blockers, and decisions needed.
Risk register
Keep each risk's trigger, consequence, and response.
Handover note
Prepare a human handover of current state, owners, and next actions.
Sales call
Keep customer needs, buying facts, and follow-up from a sales call.
Proposal brief
Keep a proposal's deliverable, terms, exclusions, and approval ask.
Job posting
Shorten a job ad while preserving duties, requirements, and terms.
Resume bullets
Turn experience into accurate action-and-result resume bullets.
Performance feedback
Keep observed behavior, its impact, and agreed development steps.
Policy summary
Shorten workplace policy while preserving duties and exceptions.
Procurement comparison
Compare vendor offers, prices, terms, and missing information.
Requirements brief
Keep a request's need, required behavior, and scope limits.
Acceptance criteria
Shorten acceptance conditions without weakening pass or fail checks.
Escalation note
Explain a blocker, its impact, and the decision needed to resolve it.
Research request
Clarify a research decision, questions, scope, and evidence needed.
Event brief
Condense event logistics, responsibilities, and contingency plans.
Abstract
Summarize a complete report: purpose, method, findings, and limits.
Plain language
Explain specialist text to general readers without losing conditions.
Newsletter brief
Write a short newsletter item with a useful next step.
Press release brief
Condense an announcement into facts with claims still attributed.
Social post
Fit a supported message into a short post without invented hype.
Slide copy
Fit one claim and a few supporting points onto a slide.
Speaker notes
Turn a talk script into speaking cues with key qualifications.
Alt text
Write a brief text alternative from a supplied image description.
Image caption
Write a short caption from supplied image context and attribution.
FAQ answer
Answer one FAQ briefly, with its conditions and next step.
Lesson recap
Keep a lesson's main point, essential example, and common error.
Glossary definition
Define a term briefly while retaining its defining distinction.
Comparison summary
Compare alternatives using matched criteria and explicit gaps.
Timeline
Turn a narrative into dated events without inventing chronology.
Argument map
Map an argument to claims, evidence, assumptions, and objections.
Dialogue trim
Tighten dialogue while preserving speakers, intent, and useful pauses.
Retrieval excerpt
Select exact source passages with citations and qualifying context.
Tool result digest
Keep a tool result's real status, useful output, errors, and limits.
Evidence ledger
Keep claims with sources, counterevidence, and limits in context.
Constraint ledger
Extract task constraints, their scope, sources, and conflicts.