Personal agent prompts
Prompts that put a personal assistant to work — not coding skills, but the everyday jobs: the week's triage, a reply in your own voice, what a meeting actually decided. 8 prompts, grouped by job.
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Chief of staff
Running your week: triage, follow-ups, and the things you said you would do.
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Weekly triage
#Turns an inbox and a calendar into the five things that actually need you this week.
Read my last week of mail and my calendar for the next one. List the five things only I can do, the ones someone else should own, and anything I have silently dropped. Rank by what breaks if it slips.
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Fresh-eyes audit of how you work
#Asks the agent to look at everything it can reach and say where you are the bottleneck.
I want a fresh-eyes audit of how my business runs with AI. Where I'm the bottleneck: every spot where the work stops until I step in. A scorecard, 1 to 10, for plan, build, run, track, improve and self-improve.
Writing and email
Drafting in your voice, and cutting what doesn't need saying.
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Reply in my voice
#Drafts a reply that sounds like you, from how you have written before.
Here are twenty emails I have written. Draft a reply to the message below in that voice: the same sentence length, the same directness, the same amount of hedging. Do not add warmth I would not have added.
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Cut it down
#Halves a draft without losing anything the reader needed.
Cut this to half its length. Keep every fact and every decision. Remove throat-clearing, restatement, and any sentence that only signals effort. Show me what you removed so I can put back what I miss.
Research and reading
Going and finding out, then reporting back short.
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Read this for me
#A long document, reduced to what changes your mind.
Read this and tell me what in it would change a decision I am about to make. Skip the summary. If nothing in it would change anything, say so in one line.
Meetings
Before, during and after: prep, notes, and what was actually decided.
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Brief me before a call
#Ten lines on who you are about to talk to and what happened last time.
I am meeting this person in an hour. Give me ten lines: who they are, what we last agreed, anything I promised and have not delivered, and the one question they are most likely to open with.
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What was decided
#Separates the decisions from the discussion in a set of notes.
From these notes, list only what was decided, who owns it, and by when. Put anything that sounded like a decision but has no owner in a second list called Unresolved.
Planning and decisions
Thinking a thing through before committing to it.
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Steelman, then decide
#Argues both sides properly before recommending one.
Make the strongest case for each option, including the one I clearly favour — especially its weakest point. Then tell me which you would pick and what would have to be true for you to be wrong.
Collections worth browsing
Whole libraries of these, kept by other people:
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Copy-paste workflows that put a personal agent to work across sales, marketing, ops, finance, customer success, hiring and product. Each one is submitted by someone who does that job. Free to browse; an account lifts the limit.
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