Everyday prompt kit

What it is

Five plain-text prompts for work that comes up most days. Each file says when to use it, then gives the prompt with square brackets where your own text goes. Paste one into any chat assistant, fill the brackets, send.

README.md
prompts/reply-to-email.md
prompts/meeting-actions.md
prompts/say-no.md
prompts/explain-error.md
prompts/plain-rewrite.md

Who it suits

Office workers who use an AI chat a few times a day but rewrite the same request each time. It suits people who prefer plain files to another app.

If you already keep a prompt library you trust, you will not need these.

Where to use it

Anywhere you can paste text into a chat assistant.

• Chat assistants: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot or any other
• Notes apps and text expanders: the files are plain text, so they sit well in the ones you already use

How to set it up

Get it saves a zip in your downloads folder. Nothing installs. You need no key.

1. Unzip it somewhere you can reach quickly.
2. Open the file for the job, such as prompts/say-no.md.
3. To keep one at hand, save it as a saved prompt in your chat app, if it keeps them, or in a text expander.

How to use it

Copy the prompt, fill in the brackets and send it. The meeting prompt takes a raw transcript as readily as your own scribbled notes. The error prompt, as the kit gives it, asks for four answers in a fixed order.

Explain this error to me.
What I was doing: [the command, the app or the step]
The error:
[paste the whole error text]

Answer in this order:
1. What it means, in one or two plain sentences.
2. The most likely cause in my case.
3. The first thing to try, as an exact command or step.
4. What to check if that does not fix it.

If the error alone is not enough to tell, say what else you need to see.

1. You pick the file for the job
2. You fill in the square brackets
3. You paste it into any chat assistant
4. The reply follows the prompt’s rules

Example

You paste a long email thread into the reply prompt and fill in its two lines.

What I want to say: yes to Tuesday, ask for the agenda first
My tone: friendly

A short reply in a friendly tone that accepts Tuesday and asks for the agenda, with no opening line about hoping they are well. It answers every question the thread asks, in order. Where you gave no answer, it writes [CHECK] instead of making one up.

For newcomers and experts

If you are new. A prompt is what you type to an AI. Good ones say what you want, in what form and what to avoid. These five are ready-made, and the brackets show where your own text goes. Start with the plain rewrite on a paragraph of jargon from your own work.

For experts. Each file is a short instruction with a when-to-use line and bracketed slots, written to work in any assistant. Two of them cap the length: a reply stays under 120 words unless the email asks several questions, and a no stays under 80.

The reply prompt marks gaps with [CHECK] instead of filling them, a cheap guard against invented detail. The meeting prompt asks only for what the notes say and keeps names as written. Tune tone and length in the ones you use most to your house style.

Good to know

• Read before you send: the prompts tell the model not to invent facts, yet a model can still get a name or a date wrong
• Your text: whatever you paste goes to the assistant you use
• Language: all five are in English
• Nothing runs: the kit is plain text only