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• Translation

  Redact first

  Translate a document and keep the terms consistent

  20 minutes · Gives you short sections

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  You are translating for a civil society organisation. Translate the text below from [SOURCE LANGUAGE] into [TARGET LANGUAGE].
  
  Rules:
  1. Translate the meaning, not word by word. Keep the register formal and plain.
  2. Add nothing, remove nothing, soften nothing. If the source is vague, stay vague.
  3. Copy every name, number, date and quotation exactly as it appears in the source. Keep each number in the digit form the source uses, and say so where the source mixes digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123.
  4. The first time a legal or technical term appears, put the original word in brackets after your translation.
  5. Mark anything you are unsure about with [CHECK] inside the translation.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The translation.
  B. A table with two columns: the source term, and the wording you chose for it.
  C. Every [CHECK] you marked, with one line each saying why.
  
  If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column.
  
  Text to translate:
  [PASTE THE TEXT]

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• Long documents

  Redact first

  Turn a long document into a one-page brief

  15 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Read the document below and write a brief for a colleague who has not read it.
  
  Rules:
  1. Use only what is in the document. Add nothing from your own knowledge. If you are not sure whether something is in it, leave it out.
  2. Every point must name the page, article or section it comes from.
  3. Quote the exact wording for anything that could be disputed.
  4. Copy every number and date in the digit form the document uses, and flag it where the document mixes digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123.
  5. Do not soften and do not dramatise.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. What this document is, in one sentence: who wrote it, when, and what it decides or reports.
  B. The ten most important points, one line each, each with its page or section. Carry every number, date and deadline inside the point it belongs to, each with its own page.
  C. What the document does NOT say that a reader would expect it to.
  D. Three questions this document leaves open.
  
  Document:
  [PASTE THE DOCUMENT]

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• Research

  Redact first

  Build a dated timeline from your notes

  25 minutes · Gives you a table

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below are notes from several sources, with names and identifying details already removed. Build a timeline from them.
  
  Rules:
  1. Use only what the notes say. Infer nothing. Never calculate or guess a date.
  2. One row per event. If two notes describe the same event, merge them into one row and list both sources.
  3. If an event has no date, it goes in the undated list, not in the table.
  4. Mark each row STATED if the note gives the date, or UNCLEAR if the note is ambiguous about it.
  5. Copy each date in the form the note wrote it. Where the notes mix digits, ١٢٣ alongside 123, or write one date two ways, keep both and mark the row UNCLEAR.
  6. Name people only by the label the notes use. Never replace a label with a real name.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. A table with these columns: date, what happened, where, who the note names, source note, STATED or UNCLEAR.
  B. Undated events, as a list, each with its source note.
  C. Contradictions between the notes, quoted on both sides.
  D. What a reader would need next to close each contradiction.
  
  If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column.
  
  Notes:
  [PASTE THE REDACTED NOTES]

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• Laws and gazettes

  Public material only

  Compare two versions of a law and list what changed

  30 minutes · Gives you a table

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below are two versions of the same law, regulation or bill. Version 1 is the older one. Version 2 is the newer one.
  
  Rules:
  1. Compare them article by article. Quote the exact wording on both sides.
  2. Report only what changed. Do not summarise what stayed the same.
  3. Say what each change does in practice, in one plain sentence. No political comment.
  4. If an article was renumbered but its wording is the same, write RENUMBERED. Do not report it as removed.
  5. Article numbers may arrive in mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123. Treat ١٢ and 12 as the same article.
  6. If a change is ambiguous, say so and give both readings. If neither version settles a point, write "the document does not say" instead of filling the gap.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. A table: article, wording in version 1, wording in version 2, what it changes in practice, who it affects.
  B. Articles removed or added. One line each, marked REMOVED or ADDED, with the article number and its subject.
  C. The three changes that most affect civil society organisations, and why.
  D. Anything you could not compare because the numbering differs.
  
  If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column.
  
  Version 1:
  [PASTE THE OLDER VERSION]
  
  Version 2:
  [PASTE THE NEWER VERSION]

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• News monitoring

  Public material only

  Turn a week of headlines into a digest

  15 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is a list of published items from this week: headline, outlet, date, and a link or a short extract for each.
  
  Rules:
  1. Use only the items below. Add no background from your own knowledge.
  2. Group them into themes. Name each theme in plain words.
  3. Merge items that report the same event into one line, and list every outlet that reported it. If two outlets contradict each other, keep both versions in that line and write CONTRADICTION.
  4. Mark SINGLE SOURCE where only one outlet reports something.
  5. Dates may arrive in mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123. Copy each date as it appears in the item.
  6. Do not judge whether a claim is true. If an item does not say who or when, write "the item does not say".
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The themes, most reported first. Under each theme, one line per item: what is claimed, which outlet, what date.
  B. Everything marked SINGLE SOURCE or CONTRADICTION, as one list.
  C. What is missing: which of these stories has no follow-up, and which claims nobody has answered.
  D. Five lines a colleague could read aloud in a meeting.
  
  Items:
  [PASTE THE ITEMS]

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• Reports and advocacy

  Redact first

  Draft a donor report section from your own notes

  25 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Write one section of a donor report using ONLY the notes below.
  
  Rules:
  1. Never invent a number, a place, a date or a beneficiary. If a figure is missing, write [NUMBER NEEDED] and carry on.
  2. Copy every figure exactly as it stands in the notes. Do not round it, and do not replace it with a phrase such as "about 200".
  3. Do not describe an activity that is not in the notes.
  4. Report a target that was missed as a missed target, with the reason from the notes. Do not present it as a partial success.
  5. Where two notes disagree, write both and say they disagree. Do not merge them into one sentence.
  6. Plain language, short sentences. No promotional adjectives. Maximum [WORD COUNT] words.
  
  Structure:
  A. What was done in this period.
  B. Results against the indicator, answered as the indicator is written: [PASTE THE INDICATOR WORDING].
  C. What did not go to plan, why, and what changes next period as a result.
  D. A list of every [NUMBER NEEDED] you wrote, so I can fill them in.
  
  Notes:
  [PASTE YOUR MONITORING NOTES]

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• Grants and admin

  Redact first

  Check whether your organisation can apply

  20 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is a call for proposals, and then five facts about my organisation. Answer only from the call.
  
  Rules:
  1. For every answer, quote the clause you used and give its section number.
  2. If the call does not answer something, write "the call does not say". Never fill a gap with what is usual.
  3. If a clause turns on where we work or what we work on, do not guess. List it as a question for us to answer offline.
  4. Do not encourage or discourage me. Report what the document requires.
  5. Keep every date and figure exactly as the call writes it, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. Are we eligible: yes, no, or unclear, with the clause quoted for each requirement we meet or fail.
  B. Every deadline, with date, time and time zone as written, then a checklist of the required documents and annexes, one line each.
  C. Grounds for disqualification, and the budget rules that would change how we plan: co-financing, ineligible costs, ceilings, reporting.
  D. The questions we should send the donor, because the call does not answer them.
  
  The call:
  [PASTE THE CALL]
  
  My organisation, five facts and nothing more:
  Country of registration: [COUNTRY]
  Legal form: [LEGAL FORM AS IT IS WRITTEN ON OUR REGISTRATION]
  Years active: [UNDER 3 / 3 TO 10 / OVER 10]
  Last annual budget: [PICK ONE BAND, NOT THE FIGURE: UNDER 50,000 / 50,000 TO 250,000 / OVER 250,000, AND THE CURRENCY]
  External audit available: [YES OR NO]

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• Verification

  Public material only

  Build a verification checklist for a claim

  15 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  I have a claim I cannot verify yet. Do NOT tell me whether it is true, and do not estimate how likely it is. I need a plan for checking it.
  
  Rules:
  1. Give no verdict. Do not write "probably", "likely", "appears genuine" or any other judgement of the claim.
  2. Do not perform the checks. Do not search. Write the plan only.
  3. Name people by type of person or institution, never by name.
  4. If a check needs something I did not give you, say what it is instead of assuming it.
  
  The claim: [WRITE THE CLAIM IN ONE SENTENCE]
  What I have: [DESCRIBE WHAT YOU HAVE: a photo, a video, a document, a forwarded message, a screenshot]
  What I already know: [DATE, PLACE, WHO IS SAYING IT, WHERE IT CAME FROM]
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. What would have to be true for this claim to hold, as separate testable statements.
  B. The checks, ordered from cheapest to most expensive, and for each one the result that would support the claim and the result that would refute it.
  C. What evidence would disprove the claim, and who could confirm or refute it locally, by type of person or institution and never by name.
  D. What cannot be checked from the material I have, including what you, as a language model, cannot check at all.

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• Protecting information

  Redact first

  Make a redaction checklist before you paste anything

  10 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  I am about to work on a document in an AI tool. Before I do, help me decide what must come out of it. I am not going to paste the document. I will name its type.
  
  Rules:
  1. Do not ask me to paste the document, and do not ask me for a sample of it.
  2. Do not ask where the document came from or who else holds a copy. Neither one is needed for a redaction list.
  3. Write for the type I picked. Do not write a general list that would fit any document.
  4. Name what must be removed in the words that really appear on a page of this type, so I can find them by eye.
  
  The type of document, pick one: [AN INTAKE FORM / A WITNESS STATEMENT / A PAYROLL SHEET / A CASE LOG / A PARTNER REPORT / A MEETING RECORD]
  Who appears in it: [BY ROLE OR CATEGORY ONLY, NEVER BY NAME]
  What I want the AI tool to do with it: [DESCRIBE THE TASK IN ONE SENTENCE]
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. What must be removed before a document of this type goes into any tool that is not on our own machine.
  B. The details people leave in that still identify someone once they are combined: a village name plus an age, a rare job title, the date of an event only a few people attended. List the ones that apply to this document type.
  C. What may stay because the task needs it, then the order of work, so a partly redacted copy is never saved over the original.
  D. How to check the redaction worked, including what to search for, such as mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123, and then whether this task can be done at all with the material redacted, or whether it needs a route where nothing leaves our own machine.

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• Reports and advocacy

  Public material only

  Turn one finding into a press release and three posts

  20 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Write a press release and three social posts about the finding below. Use only what I give you.
  
  The finding, in one sentence: [WRITE IT]
  The number, exactly as it must appear: [WRITE IT, WITH ITS UNIT AND ITS PERIOD]
  Where the number comes from: [OUR REPORT, ITS DATE, ITS PAGE]
  The quote, and the role of the person who said it: [PASTE THE QUOTE AND THE ROLE]
  What we are asking for: [THE ONE ACTION YOU WANT]
  What we have not established: [WHATEVER OUR MATERIAL DOES NOT PROVE]
  
  Rules:
  1. Never change the number, its unit or its period. Do not round it, do not convert it, do not write it as a word.
  2. Copy the digits as I typed them, whether they are ١٢٣ or 123.
  3. Do not add a cause. If we did not establish why, do not explain why.
  4. No adjectives that overstate: unprecedented, shocking, historic.
  5. Keep the quote word for word.
  6. If a detail is missing, write [MISSING] in the draft. Do not fill it in yourself.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. A press release: headline under 12 words, three short paragraphs, the quote, then the ask.
  B. Three posts, each under 240 characters, each carrying the number and the ask, no hashtags unless I gave you one.
  C. Every sentence that needs sign-off before publication, quoted, and who should sign it.
  D. The three questions a journalist will ask first, and whether our material answers them.

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• Translation

  Public material only

  Translate a donor call without shifting a requirement

  15 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is a published call for proposals. Translate it into the language named above. Colleagues will decide what to apply for from your translation, so a requirement that shifts meaning is a lost application.
  
  Rules:
  1. Translate the meaning in plain formal wording. Do not summarise, do not shorten, do not explain.
  2. Copy every figure, date, time, time zone, percentage and currency exactly as written. Where the source mixes digits (١٢٣ alongside 123), keep each one in the form it appears.
  3. Never make a requirement softer or firmer. "Must" stays "must", "may" stays "may", "encouraged" stays "encouraged".
  4. The first time a requirement word appears (eligible, mandatory, co-financing, annex, deadline, audit, ceiling), put the English word in brackets after your wording.
  5. Where the English can be read two ways, translate the more literal reading and mark it [CHECK].
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The translation.
  B. Every [CHECK], one line each, saying what the two readings are.
  C. Every figure, date and deadline, one line each: the source wording first, then your translation of it, so I can compare them one by one.
  D. Every requirement word you chose a wording for, with the English in brackets.
  
  The call:
  [PASTE THE PUBLISHED CALL]

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• Translation

  Redact first

  Translate your own report into English without upgrading it

  20 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is one section of our own report, with identifying details already removed. Translate it into English for a donor. Carry the meaning across at exactly the strength the source gives it, never stronger.
  
  Rules:
  1. Keep every claim at source strength. "We observed" must not become "we established". "Some participants said" must not become "participants said". Every hedge in the source stays a hedge in the English.
  2. Add nothing. If the source does not say who, how many, where or when, do not supply it.
  3. Copy every figure and date exactly, and keep mixed digits (١٢٣ alongside 123) in the form each one appears.
  4. Where the source is unclear, translate it literally and mark it [CHECK]. Do not make it read well.
  5. Section A is the English translation. Write sections B, C and D in the language named above.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The translation.
  B. Every sentence where your English is stronger, broader or more certain than the source: the source wording on one line, your wording on the next, then one line saying what changed. Write "none" only if there are none.
  C. Every [CHECK], one line each, saying what is unclear in the source.
  D. Every place where you used a term the source did not use, with the source word beside it.
  
  The report section:
  [PASTE THE SECTION, WITH NAMES AND IDENTIFYING DETAILS ALREADY REMOVED]

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• Translation

  Redact first

  Check a Sorani translation line by line against the Arabic

  15 minutes · Gives you a table

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is an Arabic text, then a Kurdish Sorani translation of it. Compare the two. You are checking a translation, not producing one.
  
  Rules:
  1. Work line by line, in the order of the Arabic.
  2. Copy the Arabic line and the Sorani line as they are. Write the verdict and the note in the language named above.
  3. Give each line one verdict only: same meaning, weaker, stronger, missing, added.
  4. Where the verdict is not "same meaning", add one plain sentence saying what the difference is. No grammar terms.
  5. Treat every figure, date and name as a line of its own. Mixed digits (١٢٣ alongside 123) count as a difference and must be reported.
  6. Never offer a corrected wording, not once. Reporting the difference is the whole job.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. A table, one row per line of the Arabic: the Arabic line, the Sorani line, the verdict, the note.
  B. How many lines got each verdict.
  C. The lines a fluent Sorani speaker should look at first, most serious first.
  D. Last of all, this sentence: machine output in Kurdish Sorani needs a fluent speaker to read it before it is used anywhere.
  
  If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column.
  
  The Arabic:
  [PASTE THE ARABIC]
  
  The Sorani translation:
  [PASTE THE SORANI TRANSLATION]

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• Translation

  Public material only

  Rewrite an official paragraph in plain language

  10 minutes · Gives you a message to send · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is one paragraph of published official text: a regulation, a form instruction or a donor condition. Rewrite it in plain words in the language named above, as a message I can send to a community member as it stands.
  
  Rules:
  1. Short sentences, everyday words. Write so that a fourteen year old can read it once and know what to do.
  2. Keep every number, date, deadline, amount, office name and place name exactly as written, including mixed digits (١٢٣ alongside 123).
  3. Add nothing. No advice, no reassurance, no step and no office that is not in the paragraph. If the paragraph does not say who to contact or what happens next, write that it does not say.
  4. Do not soften an obligation. If something is required, the message says it is required, and if there is a consequence for missing it, the message says that too.
  5. Keep any word that has a legal effect and cannot be swapped for an everyday word. Then explain it once, in one line.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The message, ready to send, at most eight short sentences.
  B. What the reader must do, and by when, one line each.
  C. Every word you had to keep technical, with a one line explanation of each.
  D. Anything in the paragraph you could not make plain without changing its meaning.
  
  The paragraph:
  [PASTE THE PUBLISHED PARAGRAPH]

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• Transcription

  Redact first

  Turn messy meeting notes into checkable minutes

  15 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  You are writing the minutes of a meeting from one person's rough notes. Work only from the notes below.
  
  Rules:
  1. Never invent a decision. If the notes do not say a decision was taken, it was not taken.
  2. Never assign an action the notes do not assign. Give one role per action, exactly the role the notes name, and where the notes name none write "No owner in the notes".
  3. Never invent a date. Where the notes give no date, write "No date in the notes".
  4. Copy names, figures and dates exactly as the notes write them. Do not correct them.
  5. Anything you are unsure about goes in section D. Do not guess in A, B or C.
  6. Keep every section short. One line per item.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. Decisions taken. One line each, with who decided it as the notes record it. Where the notes say only "the meeting", write that.
  B. Actions. One line each: what is to be done, the one role the notes assign it to, and the date the notes give.
  C. Discussed without a decision. One line each.
  D. Unclear in the notes. One line each: what is missing or contradictory, and which section above it would belong to.
  
  Notes:
  [PASTE YOUR NOTES]

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• Transcription

  Public material only

  Build an interview guide from your topics

  15 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  I have an interview tomorrow. Build a guide from the topics below. The person I will interview may have lived through hard events, so every question must be open, must not suggest its own answer, and must not ask for a detail we do not need.
  
  Rules:
  1. Write no question that carries its own answer. The words of the answer you expect must not appear in the question.
  2. Ask for no identifying detail beyond what the topic needs. No exact address, no full name of a third person, no employer, no date of birth.
  3. Ask about events and sequence, not about feelings the person has not offered.
  4. Every question must be answerable with a refusal. Add no question that assumes the person will continue.
  5. Invent no organisation name, no project name and no place where the recording will be kept. Leave each of those as a gap marked [FILL IN BY HAND].
  6. Plain words. One idea per question.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. An opening script to read aloud: who I am, what the interview is for, where the recording and the notes will be kept, that the person may stop at any moment or skip any question, and how to withdraw consent later. Plain language, under 150 words, no legal terms.
  B. Eight to twelve questions, grouped under the topics below, each with one follow-up question under it.
  C. Questions to avoid, six at most, each with its reason in three or four words: suggests the answer, reopens the harm, or asks a detail we do not need.
  D. A closing script: what happens next, and one sentence checking the person is still comfortable with what they gave.
  
  Topics:
  [LIST YOUR THREE OR FOUR TOPICS]

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• Laws and gazettes

  Public material only

  Sort a gazette issue into read, watch and ignore

  20 minutes · Gives you a table

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is the table of contents of one issue of an official gazette. I have the titles only, not the full texts. Sort them for me.
  
  Rules:
  1. Work only from the titles I give you. Do not describe content you have not been given, and do not fill it in from what such items usually contain.
  2. Where the title alone does not say what an item changes, write "The title alone is not enough" in that cell and stop there.
  3. Copy each item's number, date and title exactly as printed, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123.
  4. Give every item one verdict: "Read in full", "Watch" or "Ignore", with a reason of one line.
  5. Add nothing about who published it, why, or what it means politically.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. A table with these columns: item as printed, what it appears to change, who it appears to affect, verdict, reason.
  B. The items where the title alone is not enough, listed again, each with the one question that would settle it.
  C. If there is time for only three, the order to open them in.
  
  If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column.
  
  Table of contents:
  [PASTE THE LIST OF ITEMS]

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• Laws and gazettes

  Public material only

  Draft a comment on a published draft law

  25 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is a published draft law, and a list of the articles I want to comment on with my own published evidence for each. Write the comment I will submit.
  
  Rules:
  1. Comment only on the articles I list. Add no other article, however weak it looks.
  2. Use only the evidence I give you. Never invent a case, a figure, a date or a source, and never add an example of your own.
  3. Where my evidence does not carry the point, write "Evidence missing" and the one line I would have to supply.
  4. Quote the article's current wording exactly, then give the proposed wording in full, so the two can be read side by side.
  5. Plain and formal. Propose wording. Do not argue about motive and do not accuse.
  
  Give me, for each article I list, in this order:
  A. The article number, its current wording quoted, and the exact wording proposed instead.
  B. The reason, in one sentence, naming which of my evidence lines it rests on.
  C. The effect on the people this article reaches, using only what my evidence says. Where my evidence does not say, write it as a question for me to answer before I submit.
  
  Then once at the end:
  D. Every "Evidence missing" line, gathered in one list.
  
  Keep the whole comment under one page.
  
  Draft law:
  [PASTE THE ARTICLES OF THE DRAFT LAW]
  
  Articles I am commenting on, and my evidence for each:
  [LIST EACH ARTICLE NUMBER AND ONE LINE OF YOUR OWN PUBLISHED EVIDENCE]

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• News monitoring

  Public material only

  Watch one topic for a week with no budget

  15 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Build me a weekly routine for watching one topic. I have no paid tool and no budget. I will run every search by hand on a phone.
  
  The topic: [WRITE THE TOPIC IN A FEW WORDS, AND THE PLACE NAME IF IT HAS ONE]
  
  Rules:
  1. You cannot search. Say so in one line at the top, and never report what anyone is saying about this topic now.
  2. Search phrases only. No claim, no finding, no figure, and no name of an organisation you are not certain of.
  3. Public sources only. Nothing that needs a login, a payment or a private group.
  4. Do not ask me about my organisation, my colleagues or our funding. If a fact like that would change your answer, write it as a question for me to answer away from the tool.
  5. Everything must fit inside thirty minutes a week.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. Eight to twelve search phrases. One per line, in this form: the phrase, then its language (Arabic, Kurdish or English), then the one public place to run it (a general search engine, a news search, the public search inside a platform I already use, or the website of the body that publishes on this topic). Cover all three languages, and write the Arabic and Kurdish phrases in their own script, not transliterated.
  B. What to record for every hit, as four labelled lines and no more: date published, who published it, the one sentence that matters quoted exactly, and the link. Copy dates exactly as written, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123.
  C. The half hour, split into named steps with the minutes against each, ending with one step where I write three lines for a colleague.
  D. What this routine will miss, and the two phrases most likely to return noise instead of hits.
  
  Do not run the searches. Write the routine.

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• News monitoring

  Public material only

  Check whether posts only look coordinated

  15 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below are public posts that look coordinated to me. Do NOT tell me whether they are coordinated, and do not estimate how likely it is. I need to know what to check.
  
  Rules:
  1. Never conclude that coordination happened. That conclusion is mine to reach or to drop.
  2. Replace every account with Account 1, Account 2 and so on. Never repeat a handle, a display name or a description of a profile picture, and never say anything about the person behind an account.
  3. Report only what is in the posts below. Do not add background from your own knowledge.
  4. For every pattern, give the innocent explanation as well. Two accounts posting the same sentence may have copied the same public statement.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The patterns to check, one block each, starting with timing, identical phrasing, account age and shared links. For each one: what to look at, the observation that would strengthen the reading, the observation that would weaken it, and the innocent explanation.
  B. What the posts below already show, as observations only: repeated wording quoted exactly, times as they appear, links that appear more than once. No conclusion.
  C. What cannot be decided from public posts at all, and what a person would have to obtain to decide it.
  D. One sentence I can put in a note instead of the word "coordinated", describing only what was observed.
  
  The posts:
  [PASTE THE POSTS, WITH THE TIME AND THE DATE ON EACH]

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• Verification

  Public material only

  Check a forwarded message in two minutes

  10 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  I have a forwarded message and two minutes. I am standing up, on a phone. Do NOT tell me whether the message is true or false, and do not say how likely either is.
  
  Rules:
  1. Every check in section A must be doable in two minutes on a phone, with no computer, no account and no paid tool.
  2. Public sources only. Do not send me to a login or to a payment.
  3. Do not judge the message. Do not add facts of your own about the event it describes.
  4. Keep each check to one line. Order them by what rules the message out fastest.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The five checks, numbered, in order, each on one line, each ending with what a yes would mean and what a no would mean.
  B. What would settle it: the one piece of evidence that would end the question, and the type of person or office that holds it. No names.
  C. One sentence to send back to whoever forwarded it, if the checks do not settle it. It must ask where the message came from, and must not call it false.
  D. What you cannot check here at all.
  
  The message:
  [PASTE THE FORWARDED MESSAGE]

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• Verification

  Public material only

  Sweep a batch of photo captions before publishing

  15 minutes · Gives you a table

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below are photograph captions written by different people. Every caption is numbered. I need to know which ones make a claim we cannot support yet.
  
  Rules:
  1. A caption that describes what is visible is a description. A caption that names a place, a date, a cause, a number or a person is making a claim. Treat the two differently.
  2. Do not decide whether a claim is true. Decide what evidence would be needed.
  3. Never invent a detail, a place or a date. Never add a caption I did not paste.
  4. Keep the wording of every caption exactly as written, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123, and including spelling mistakes.
  5. Every caption gets exactly one decision: publish, hold, or rewrite.
  6. You cannot see the photographs. Where a decision depends on what the image actually shows, say so in the evidence column.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. A table, one row per caption: number, the caption as written, what it claims as fact, what evidence that claim would need, and the decision.
  B. The rewrites, one for each caption marked rewrite, keeping only what a photograph can show and dropping the rest.
  C. Every caption marked hold, with the one thing that would move it to publish.
  D. Captions where you could not tell what was being claimed, and the question to put to the person who wrote it.
  
  If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column.
  
  The captions:
  [PASTE THE CAPTIONS, NUMBERED]

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• Grants and admin

  Redact first

  Write the budget narrative from your own budget lines

  25 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Write the budget narrative for the budget lines below. Use only what is on those lines.
  
  Rules:
  1. Every sentence must be traceable to one budget line. Name the line at the start of the sentence.
  2. Never change a figure. Do not round it, correct it, convert a currency or calculate a total I did not give you. Copy every figure exactly as I wrote it.
  3. Where a line needs a justification I have not given you, write [WHY THIS LINE] and carry on. Never invent a reason, a rate, a quantity or a supplier.
  4. Do not add a line I did not give you, and do not merge two lines into one sentence.
  5. Plain language, short sentences. One short paragraph per line.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The narrative, in the order the lines appear, one paragraph per line.
  B. A list of every [WHY THIS LINE] you wrote, with the line it belongs to, so I can fill them in.
  C. Any figure that looks inconsistent with another figure I gave you, quoted as I wrote it. Do not correct it.
  
  The budget lines:
  [PASTE THE BUDGET LINES]
  
  The donor's own wording for this section, if the template gives one:
  [PASTE THE TEMPLATE INSTRUCTION OR WRITE "none"]

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• Grants and admin

  Redact first

  Ask a donor for more time with no extra money

  15 minutes · Gives you a message to send · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Write a short message asking a donor to extend a grant with no additional funds. Use only the facts below.
  
  Rules:
  1. No apology paragraph. State the position once and do not repeat it.
  2. Never promise anything that is not in the facts below. Do not add an activity, an output, a date or a figure.
  3. Where the message needs a figure, a date or a reference I have not given you, write [I MUST FILL THIS IN] and carry on.
  4. Give the reason in one factual sentence. No blame and no dramatic language.
  5. Under 250 words. Short sentences. One request, stated plainly.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The message, with a subject line, and inside it, in this order: what is complete, what is not complete and why in one sentence, the new end date, what will be delivered by that date, and what changes in the workplan.
  B. A list of every [I MUST FILL THIS IN] you wrote, so I can complete it.
  C. What to check in the grant agreement before I send this, as a short list: the notice period, who has to sign, and whether the donor requires a formal amendment request instead of a message.
  
  The facts:
  What is complete: [LIST WHAT IS FINISHED]
  What is not complete: [LIST WHAT IS NOT FINISHED]
  The reason, in one sentence: [WRITE THE REASON]
  Current end date: [DATE AS WRITTEN IN THE AGREEMENT]
  New end date requested: [NEW DATE]
  What will be delivered by the new end date: [LIST WHAT WILL BE DELIVERED]
  What changes in the workplan: [LIST WHAT CHANGES]

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• Grants and admin

  Redact first

  Compare three supplier quotes and justify the choice

  15 minutes · Gives you a table

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below are three supplier quotes. Compare them and help me justify a choice. Use only what the quotes say.
  
  Rules:
  1. Never change a figure. Copy every price, currency and date exactly as the quote writes it, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123. Do not convert a currency, and do not calculate a total I did not give you.
  2. Compare all three on the same criteria, even when a quote is silent. Where a quote says nothing about a criterion, write "the quote does not say".
  3. Do not recommend a supplier. Set out what each quote offers and what is missing from it.
  4. Never add a fact about a supplier from anywhere except its own quote.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. A comparison table, one column per quote, with one row for each of: price as written, what is included, delivery time, warranty, and what is missing from that quote.
  B. The two questions to ask each supplier before deciding, taken from what its own quote leaves unanswered.
  C. One paragraph justifying the choice of [WHICH QUOTE], using only the figures as I wrote them, and writing [I MUST FILL THIS IN] wherever the paragraph needs a fact the quotes do not contain.
  
  If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column.
  
  Quote 1:
  [PASTE QUOTE 1]
  
  Quote 2:
  [PASTE QUOTE 2]
  
  Quote 3:
  [PASTE QUOTE 3]

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• Protecting information

  Public material only

  Write a consent script the person can understand

  15 minutes · Gives you one page · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  I am about to record a testimony. Write the words I will say out loud to ask for consent, in plain language anyone can follow, including someone who cannot read. The recording will be [AUDIO OR VIDEO]. Ask me nothing about the person: this is a script I speak, not a record about anybody.
  
  Rules:
  1. Promise nothing I have not told you I can deliver. Where the script needs a fact only I know, leave a blank in square brackets with a short label, for example [WHERE THE FILE IS KEPT]. Never fill such a blank with a guess.
  2. Never say the recording is safe, secure, anonymous, or impossible to trace. Say what happens to it, in plain words.
  3. Short sentences. One idea per sentence. No legal wording and no form language.
  4. Write it to be spoken, so I can read it aloud without stumbling.
  5. Say clearly that the person may refuse, may stop at any moment, may answer some questions and not others, and that nothing they receive from us depends on their answer.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The spoken script, covering in this order: what is being recorded and how long it will take, where the file is kept and for how long, who can listen to it, what will be published and where, what will be left out, how the person withdraws, who they contact to withdraw, and the last date on which withdrawal is still possible.
  B. Three questions to ask afterwards to confirm the person understood, written so that yes or no is not an answer.
  C. The one line to record at the start of the file to say consent was given, and the fields that line must contain.
  D. Every square bracket blank you left, gathered in one list, so I can fill them in before I start.
  
  Keep the whole page under 400 words.

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• Protecting information

  Public material only

  Write a one-page AI note for your colleagues

  15 minutes · Gives you one page · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  I direct a civil society organisation. My colleagues have already started using AI chatbots for work, and there is no note telling them what is allowed. Write that note, addressed to them.
  
  What I will tell you, and nothing else about us:
  1. The role people ask when they are unsure: [ROLE, FOR EXAMPLE THE PROGRAMME MANAGER, NEVER A PERSON'S NAME]
  2. Tools we have decided to allow: [LIST THEM, OR WRITE "NONE DECIDED YET"]
  
  Rules:
  1. Do not ask me what material we hold, and do not ask me to describe it. Write the three classes in general terms, give one everyday office example of each, and say in the note that I will replace your examples with our own.
  2. Under 350 words in total.
  3. Words a new volunteer understands. No legal wording and no policy vocabulary.
  4. Every rule must be one a person in a hurry can follow without asking a second question.
  5. Write "AI tool", and name no tool other than the ones I listed above.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The three classes of material and what may be done with each: may go into an allowed tool, may go in only after names and identifying details are removed, never goes into any AI tool. One everyday office example each.
  B. The two things that must never be pasted, each as one short sentence on its own line.
  C. Who to ask when unsure, using the role I gave you, and what to write down every time an AI tool is used on work material, as four short fields.
  D. The sentence a colleague says to a person whose material was involved, in plain words that admit what we do not know.
  
  End with one line: the date I should read this note again with my colleagues.

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• Research

  Public material only

  Find out what is wrong with an answer you got

  10 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Below is a prompt I used and the answer I got. I do not trust the answer. Examine it. Do not defend it, and do not rewrite it. I am not asking for a better answer. I am asking what is wrong with this one and what in my wording allowed it.
  
  Rules:
  1. Judge the answer only against what my prompt gave it. If a claim is not supported by the material or the instructions in my prompt, say so, even when the claim sounds correct.
  2. Quote the exact words of the answer you object to. Do not paraphrase them. Copy numbers as they appear, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123.
  3. Separate two things: a claim that goes beyond what was given, and a detail that appears invented, such as a number, a date, an article number, a page reference, a name or a quotation with no source in my prompt.
  4. Add no facts of your own, and do not tell me whether the answer is true in the world. Tell me whether my prompt supports it.
  5. If nothing in the answer is unsupported, say that plainly in one line.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. Unsupported claims. For each: the quoted words, and one sentence saying what would have had to be in my prompt for the claim to stand.
  B. Details that appear invented. For each: the quoted detail, its type (number, date, article number, page, name, quotation), and where in my prompt it would have come from if it were real.
  C. What in my wording allowed it. Point at the exact phrase, or at the instruction that is missing, not at the tool.
  D. The two changes to my prompt. Write out each replacement line in full, ready for me to copy, and nothing else in this section.
  
  The prompt I used:
  [PASTE THE PROMPT YOU USED]
  
  The answer I got:
  [PASTE THE ANSWER YOU GOT]

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• Reports and advocacy

  Public material only

  Turn one finding into a post in three languages

  15 minutes · Gives you a message to send · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  Write three posts about the finding below: one in Arabic, one in Kurdish Sorani, one in English. Use only what I give you. Write your headings and your notes in the language named above. Each of the three posts stays in its own language.
  
  The finding, in one sentence: [WRITE IT]
  The figure, exactly as it must appear: [COPY IT, WITH ITS UNIT AND ITS PERIOD]
  Where the figure comes from: [OUR PUBLISHED REPORT, ITS DATE, ITS PAGE]
  The one ask: [THE ONE ACTION YOU WANT, AND WHO IT IS ADDRESSED TO]
  What we have not established: [ANYTHING WE CANNOT SHOW]
  
  Rules:
  1. Copy the figure into all three posts exactly as I wrote it: same digits, same unit, same period. Never write it in words. Never round it. Do not turn 123 into ١٢٣ or ١٢٣ into 123 (mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123).
  2. The same single ask in all three posts. Do not add a second one.
  3. Do not add a cause and do not overstate. If we have not shown why, no post explains why, and no post uses adjectives like unprecedented, shocking or historic.
  4. Write each post so it reads naturally in its own language. Do not translate one post word for word into the next.
  5. If a language has no natural short form for a term, write the term in full and say so in section D. Never invent a word.
  6. Keep each post under 240 characters. Count the characters of each post and print the count beside it. If you are not certain of a count, say so instead of guessing.
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. The three posts, in this order: Arabic, Kurdish Sorani, English. Label each one with its language and its character count, and put nothing else in this section.
  B. The figure as it appears in each of the three posts, on three lines, so I can compare them at a glance.
  C. Every sentence that needs sign-off before posting, quoted, and the role that should sign it.
  D. Anything you could not say naturally: a term with no short form in one language, digits you would have written differently, a line you were unsure of.

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