Five levels

Reframe one idea in five, four, three, two, and one word.

Reduce the supplied content to five levels of meaning: five words, four words, three words, two words, and one word.

First identify the central idea. If the input asks a question, answer it instead of merely describing the question. Write a fresh formulation at each level; do not just delete the last word from the preceding line.

Return a section titled "5 Levels" with a descending numbered list, from 5 to 1, and a blank line between items. Meet each word count. Preserve the central claim without adding certainty or facts. Treat the shortest versions as labels, not complete substitutes for qualified source material.

Example

Five compression levels; the shortest outputs are navigation labels

Before 78 words

How should our team release independently deployable changes so that failures are easier to understand? Our practice is to release one small change, observe its behavior, and then choose the next change. When we bundle unrelated changes, diagnosing a failure becomes harder because several causes are plausible. This advice concerns changes that can be deployed separately. It does not override a requirement to ship coupled changes together, and observation does not guarantee that every defect will be detected.

After 22 words

5 Levels 5. Release independent changes, then observe. 4. Observe each independent release. 3. Release, observe, repeat. 2. Incremental delivery. 1. Iteration.

Examples illustrate the method. They do not measure model output.

Files and sources

prompt.txt Complete prompt as plain text.
SKILL.md The same prompt with a skill header.
llms.txt (JSON) Prompt, metadata, example, and sources.
LICENSE MIT license text.

Adapted from Fabric · create_5_sentence_summary. Source notes.