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Who published Better Prompt Text?

PresidenteOG (@presidenteog) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Better Prompt Text by presidenteog — Agent Skill

Name: Better Prompt Text
Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Author: PresidenteOG

File contents

/better-prompt-text

Rough prompt → interrogation → excellent English prompt → deliver the text. Nothing else: no files, no execution, no council. Ends when the text is delivered.

Usage

/better-prompt-text <rough prompt>     # input Spanish or English

Gate

Questions before rewrite — always. Hard stop; overrides any keep-going bias (e.g. Auto Mode). Silent inference = violation.

Interrogation

Coverage: 8 categories: goal · scope · constraints · tech stack · inputs/outputs · edge cases · success criteria · out-of-scope.

Resolved = unambiguous from prompt or known context/memory; inapplicable → n/a; else → question. Yield ~~10 simple, 12–15 complex; trivial (<~~30 min) → 2–3 riskiest only, rest [assumed]. Never zero.
Delivery: AskUserQuestion dialogs only, batches of ≤4, in the user's input language. Open questions get 2–4 plausible options (Recommended first); "Other" catches free text. Never chat lists.
Answers: "don't know" → sensible default + [assumed]. Contradicts the rough prompt → state conflict + winner explicitly (answer wins). "enough, rewrite now" (any point) → [assumed] the rest → rewrite.

Output

Always English, fenced block the user can copy:

## Objective            — one paragraph: what "done" looks like
## Context              — project, environment, prior work
## Requirements         — numbered, testable
## Constraints          — tech, conventions, limits
## Acceptance criteria  — checklist
## Out of scope         — explicit exclusions

Defaults shown [assumed: …]. After delivering: offer edit / more questions once; apply edits directly and re-present. Done. (User-initiated edit requests after Done are still honored — just not re-offered.)

Red flags

"Prompt looks complete, skip questions" → confirm the 2–3 riskiest anyway.
"Guess silently" → every guess marked [assumed].
"n/a because hard" → n/a = inapplicable, not inconvenient.
Output drifting into Spanish → English only.
Any urge to persist a file, run the prompt, or dispatch agents → wrong tool; that's /better-prompt.

Boundaries

Text out, nothing else. Works in any workspace (no dependencies). A managed copy also exists on claude.ai (anthropic-skills bundle); in desktop sessions where both are visible, this user-level copy is canonical — behavior is identical, never invoke both. Editing this file requires re-uploading the managed copy to claude.ai to keep them in sync.

---name: better-prompt-textdescription: Use when the user invokes /better-prompt-text or wants a rough prompt (Spanish or English) turned into a polished, precise English prompt to copy and use elsewhere — text delivery only, no execution, no files.---# /better-prompt-textRough prompt → interrogation → excellent English prompt → deliver the text. Nothing else: no files, no execution, no council. Ends when the text is delivered.## Usage```/better-prompt-text <rough prompt> # input Spanish or English```## Gate**Questions before rewrite — always.** Hard stop; overrides any keep-going bias (e.g. Auto Mode). Silent inference = violation.## Interrogation**Coverage:** 8 categories: goal · scope · constraints · tech stack · inputs/outputs · edge cases · success criteria · out-of-scope.- Resolved = **unambiguous** from prompt or known context/memory; inapplicable → `n/a`; else → question. Yield ~10 simple, 12–15 complex; trivial (<~30 min) → 2–3 riskiest only, rest `[assumed]`. Never zero.- **Delivery: AskUserQuestion dialogs only**, batches of ≤4, in the user's input language. Open questions get 2–4 plausible options (Recommended first); "Other" catches free text. Never chat lists.- **Answers:** "don't know" → sensible default + `[assumed]`. Contradicts the rough prompt → state conflict + winner explicitly (answer wins). "enough, rewrite now" (any point) → `[assumed]` the rest → rewrite.## OutputAlways English, fenced block the user can copy:```## Objective — one paragraph: what "done" looks like## Context — project, environment, prior work## Requirements — numbered, testable## Constraints — tech, conventions, limits## Acceptance criteria — checklist## Out of scope — explicit exclusions```Defaults shown `[assumed: …]`. After delivering: offer **edit / more questions** once; apply edits directly and re-present. Done. (User-initiated edit requests after Done are still honored — just not re-offered.)## Red flags- "Prompt looks complete, skip questions" → confirm the 2–3 riskiest anyway.- "Guess silently" → every guess marked `[assumed]`.- "n/a because hard" → n/a = inapplicable, not inconvenient.- Output drifting into Spanish → English only.- Any urge to persist a file, run the prompt, or dispatch agents → wrong tool; that's /better-prompt.## BoundariesText out, nothing else. Works in any workspace (no dependencies). A managed copy also exists on claude.ai (anthropic-skills bundle); in desktop sessions where both are visible, this user-level copy is canonical — behavior is identical, never invoke both. Editing this file requires re-uploading the managed copy to claude.ai to keep them in sync.

Frequently asked questions

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