{"id":"ops-plant-voicemail-to-three-priorities","audience":"managers","category":"operations-work","track":"operations","technique":"constraints","level":"beginner","title":"Cut a rambling voicemail into three whiteboard priorities","free":false,"task":"The plant manager left a long voicemail and the team needs this week's priorities on the whiteboard. Write a prompt for a first line exactly \"THIS WEEK\" followed by at most 3 bullets, each starting with \"- \" and written as owner, task and due date separated by \" - \". Leave out anything that isn't a work priority. Plain text, under 60 words.","materialLabel":"Your material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"VOICEMAIL TRANSCRIPT (Beth, plant manager, Monday 7:10 a.m.)\n\nOkay, so, priorities for this week. Um, the big one is the Brightfield order, it's 400 cases short and it has to ship Friday, Alicia, that's yours, I need it to ship Friday, no excuses, well, reasonable excuses.\n\nSecond, I need the dock door 3 repair quote by Wednesday, Tom, you're on that, get at least two quotes if you can.\n\nThird, the zone D cycle count has to be finished before end of shift Thursday, Renata. Lines 2 and 3 are running fine so nothing there.\n\nOh, and don't forget the team lunch Friday at 12:30, I'm ordering pizza, tell me if anyone has allergies. And the parking lot repaving is next month so ignore the memo about that for now. Anyway. Thanks everybody.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxBullets","max":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":60}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Caps the bullets","patterns":["3 bullets","at most 3","three"]},{"label":"Gives the format","patterns":["owner","due","task"]},{"label":"Says what to leave out","patterns":["leave out","lunch","repaving"]},{"label":"Sets length","patterns":["under \\d+ words","each bullet"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Including the lunch and repaving","why":"The AI lists everything the manager said.","fix":"Say: \"Work priorities only; leave out lunch, repaving and line status.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Missing owner or due date","why":"The AI writes tasks without who and when.","fix":"Say: \"Format: - Owner - task - due\".","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Too many bullets","why":"The AI writes 5 bullets.","fix":"Say: \"At most 3 bullets.\"","checks":["r0","maxBullets"]},{"title":"Getting markdown back","why":"AI adds bold, headings and bullets by default, which show up as stray symbols where this is pasted.","fix":"Say \"plain text, no bold, no headings, no asterisks\".","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and usually runs long, so a vague \"keep it short\" lands over the limit.","fix":"Cap each part instead of the total, for example \"each line under 15 words\".","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"Give the bullet cap, the owner-task-due format and what to leave out.","mission":"Turn the plant manager's voicemail into three whiteboard priorities.","musts":["Owner - task - due","Skip non-priorities","First line THIS WEEK"],"rubricLabels":["The first line is exactly \"THIS WEEK\" followed by no more than 3 bullets, each starting with \"- \" in the form owner - task - due date","The bullets are Alicia with the Brightfield order (400 cases short) due Friday, Tom with the dock door 3 repair quote due Wednesday, and Renata with the zone D cycle count due Thursday end of shift","The bullets leave out the team lunch, the pizza, the parking lot repaving and the line status"]}