11 reviewed templates

Productivity prompts built around real decisions.

Productivity prompts should reduce ambiguity, not add more text. This set helps you extract actions, plan realistically, document a process, and communicate status while keeping owners, evidence, dependencies, and unanswered questions visible.

  • Convert notes into accountable actions
  • Prioritize work against real constraints
  • Create concise handoffs and procedures

11 prompts

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Productivity Expert execution framework

Build a reusable prompt system

Turn one recurring task into a versioned instruction with inputs, controls, examples, and acceptance criteria.

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Design a reusable prompt system for [RECURRING TASK], used by [USERS]. Typical inputs: [INPUTS]. Required output: [OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS]. Known failures: [KNOWN FAILURES].

Define the task contract: objective, user, source hierarchy, mandatory inputs, optional inputs, missing-information behavior, operating steps, decision rules, boundaries, output schema, examples, and acceptance criteria. Create the master prompt with clearly named variables and instructions that remain portable across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Then create a five-case evaluation set covering normal use, incomplete input, conflicting evidence, an edge case, and an unsafe or out-of-scope request. Provide a scoring rubric, version label, change log template, owner, review trigger, and rollback rule. Do not optimize for one polished demonstration.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt treats the prompt as an operating asset with a defined contract, evaluation method, and change process.
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Design a governed team prompt library

Define prompt records, ownership, review status, permissions, testing, and retirement rules.

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Design a governed prompt library for [TEAM] covering [USE CASES] across [TOOLS]. Risk levels: [RISK LEVELS]. Current prompts or storage: [CURRENT PROMPTS].

Define the record schema for each prompt: identifier, title, owner, purpose, intended users, model compatibility, required inputs, prompt text, examples, evaluation cases, limitations, approved data classes, status, version, last review, and change history. Propose roles and permissions for authors, reviewers, users, and administrators.

Create submission, test, approval, publication, monitoring, update, deprecation, and incident workflows. Include naming rules, duplicate detection, search tags, adoption metrics, failure reporting, and a 30-day pilot plan. Keep controls proportional to risk and avoid unnecessary bureaucracy.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt makes prompt quality, ownership, and lifecycle visible so the library does not become an untrusted folder of copied text.
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Create a prompt evaluation suite

Test a prompt across representative tasks, edge cases, evidence conflicts, and model changes.

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Create an evaluation suite for this prompt: [PROMPT]. Task: [TASK]. Definition of a good output: [GOOD OUTPUT]. Known failure modes: [FAILURE MODES]. Models or versions to compare: [MODELS].

Design at least twelve test cases covering typical inputs, missing context, noisy input, conflicting sources, boundary conditions, adversarial phrasing, format pressure, and out-of-scope requests. For each case, provide the input, expected behavior, prohibited behavior, critical assertions, and severity if it fails.

Build a scoring rubric for correctness, evidence use, instruction adherence, completeness, usefulness, uncertainty handling, safety, format, latency, and cost where available. Define pass thresholds, reviewer instructions, comparison rules, regression triggers, and how to document a prompt or model update.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt replaces subjective prompt approval with repeatable cases, observable criteria, and documented trade-offs.
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Turn messy notes into an accountable action plan

Extract decisions, actions, owners, deadlines, dependencies, and unresolved questions.

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You are an operations coordinator. Convert [NOTES] into an action plan for [TEAM], considering [DEADLINE CONTEXT]. Separate confirmed decisions, proposed ideas, and unanswered questions. Return a concise summary followed by actions in priority order with suggested owner, due-date placeholder, dependency, completion evidence, and risk. Do not assign commitments that the notes do not support. Add a short list of clarifications needed before the plan is final.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt preserves uncertainty and distinguishes confirmed commitments from suggestions.
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Productivity Expert execution framework

Build a realistic weekly plan

Balance priorities, fixed commitments, capacity, focus time, and recovery from delays.

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Create a realistic weekly plan using priorities [PRIORITIES], fixed commitments [FIXED COMMITMENTS], available hours [AVAILABLE HOURS], and constraints [CONSTRAINTS]. Rank outcomes by importance and urgency. Estimate work blocks with buffers, identify what should be deferred, and protect time for deep work and administration. Return a day-by-day plan, a short not-doing list, risks to the schedule, and a recovery rule if one major task slips.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt plans within capacity and makes trade-offs explicit instead of scheduling everything.
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Write a concise decision memo

Summarize context, options, evidence, trade-offs, recommendation, and next review point.

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Draft a one-page decision memo for [DECISION]. Context: [CONTEXT]. Options: [OPTIONS]. Evidence: [EVIDENCE]. Include the decision owner, deadline, success criteria, constraints, option comparison, recommendation, rationale, key risks, dissenting view, and what would change the decision. Separate known facts from assumptions. Finish with immediate next actions and a date or condition for review.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt makes the recommendation auditable and preserves dissent or uncertainty.
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Productivity Expert execution framework

Create an outcome-focused meeting agenda

Design a meeting around decisions, preparation, timeboxes, and documented outputs.

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Create a [DURATION] meeting agenda for [ATTENDEES] with goal [MEETING GOAL] and context [CONTEXT]. State the decisions or outputs required. Separate pre-read information from live discussion. For each agenda item include owner, purpose, timebox, preparation, and expected output. Add opening alignment, a parking-lot rule, decision capture, action assignment, and criteria for canceling the meeting if preparation is incomplete.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt gives every agenda item a purpose and reduces discussion that belongs in pre-reading.
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Draft a decision-ready project update

Communicate progress, evidence, blockers, changes, decisions needed, and next actions.

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Create a concise project update for [AUDIENCE] covering [REPORTING PERIOD] from [PROJECT NOTES]. Structure it as overall status with evidence, outcomes completed, work in progress, blockers and impact, changes since the last update, risks, decisions needed with deadline, and next actions with owners. Do not turn every activity into progress. Flag missing metrics or unclear ownership rather than guessing.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt separates activity from outcome and makes requests to stakeholders explicit.
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Productivity Expert execution framework

Convert process notes into a usable SOP

Document purpose, prerequisites, steps, decision points, exceptions, and completion evidence.

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Turn [PROCESS NOTES] into a standard operating procedure for [USER ROLE] using [TOOLS]. Include purpose, scope, prerequisites, roles, inputs, numbered steps, decision points, expected output, verification, exceptions, escalation path, records to retain, and revision owner. Highlight safety or operational risks: [RISKS]. Do not fill missing critical steps with guesses; mark them as questions for the process owner.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt treats exceptions and verification as part of the process, not afterthoughts.
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Prioritize a backlog transparently

Score work with shared criteria, dependencies, capacity, and uncertainty.

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Prioritize [BACKLOG] against [GOALS] using criteria [CRITERIA] and capacity [CAPACITY]. Normalize every item into a clear outcome. Score impact, urgency, confidence, effort, risk, and dependency using a defined scale. Show the reasoning and missing evidence for each score. Return now, next, later, and decline groups, plus the trade-offs created by the proposed sequence. Do not treat a numerical score as certainty.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt exposes why an item ranks highly and where the scoring lacks evidence.
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Create a complete work handoff

Transfer context, current state, decisions, access needs, risks, and next actions.

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Create a handoff document for [NEW OWNER] by [HANDOFF DATE] using [PROJECT MATERIAL]. Include purpose, current state, stakeholders, key decisions and rationale, completed work, open work, next three actions, deadlines, dependencies, risks, known issues, recurring routines, required access without exposing credentials, file locations, and questions to ask. Mark information that may be outdated and identify the best source of truth.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt captures the reasoning and unresolved issues that file lists usually omit.