Rough Ask to Tool-Ready Prompt
Turn a rough ask or failed prompt into a paste-ready prompt with explicit inputs, constraints, and success checks.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
I can help you refine that prompt. A better-structured prompt usually works more reliably across different AI tools. You'd want to be clear about what you're asking for, maybe give some context, and specify the output format you want. Different tools sometimes respond better to different structures. What AI tool are you planning to use? If you tell me your rough prompt, I could suggest some improvements. Have you tried it yet and seen what kind of results it gives?
PROMPT ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Your rough ask: "Help me write social media content ideas for my brand"
REWRITTEN FOR: Claude
Role assignment: You are a social media strategist with 10 years of experience in B2B SaaS marketing.
Context: My company sells project management software to teams of 10-100 people. We target busy operations managers and team leads who are frustrated with spreadsheets and email chaos. Our brand voice is practical, not hype.
Task: Generate 5 social media content ideas for LinkedIn.
Constraints:
- Each idea must address a specific pain point (chaos, bottlenecks, accountability)
- Format as bullet points with hook + angle + call-to-action
- Posts should be 150-200 words, conversational tone
- Assume 50% of our audience has never heard of us
Example output format:
• HOOK: "Why your team chat is killing productivity"
ANGLE: Explain context-switching cost with a number
CTA: "Comment below: how many tools does your team use?"
Output: JSON array with 5 objects containing hook, angle, cta fields.
REWRITTEN FOR: ChatGPT
[Replace Role with "ChatGPT, you are X" / remove JSON requirement / simpler constraints]
REWRITTEN FOR: Image generation (Midjourney)
[Add visual style descriptors / remove text formatting / include mood/aesthetic]
KEY IMPROVEMENTS
Before: 1 vague sentence
After: Role + context + task + 4 constraints + output format
Expected improvement: 3-5x better output quality
Usability gain: Can reuse across tools with minor tweaksAbout this skill
Your AI keeps giving you something adjacent to what you asked for, and adding more instructions only makes the prompt longer. Turn your rough request or unsuccessful prompt into a paste-ready version that specifies the actual deliverable, preserves your constraints, and handles missing information without making things up.
What it does
- Extracts the intended outcome, required inputs, and observable success criteria from a rough request.
- Diagnoses whether a weak response came from ambiguous instructions, missing context, conflicting requirements, or a tool limitation.
- Adapts prompts for chat assistants, coding agents, research tools, and visual generators without inventing tool features.
- Replaces vague directions such as "make it professional" with concrete, task-relevant requirements.
- Builds reusable prompts with named variables, defaults, and defined behavior when inputs are missing.
- Checks the rewrite against likely failure cases, including fabricated facts, format drift, and instructions buried in pasted source material.
What you get
A ready-to-paste prompt and a short note explaining the consequential changes. For failed prompts, you also get a focused diagnosis; for reusable workflows, you get a parameterized prompt with clear input requirements.
Best for
People who regularly hand work to AI tools and need more reliable first drafts, structured outputs, research, or code changes without maintaining a sprawling master prompt.
SKILL.md preview
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name: rough-ask-to-tool-ready-prompt
description: Turns rough requests into paste-ready prompts and repairs failing prompts by defining the deliverable, grounding inputs, resolving conflicting constraints, and checking likely failure cases. Use when the user says "turn this into a prompt", "make this prompt better", "my AI keeps ignoring the format", "why does this prompt give generic answers", "adapt this for a coding agent", "make a reusable prompt template", or "write a prompt for this image tool".
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