Chapter 5. The Four-Part Brief
In this section
- Chapter 5. The Four-Part BriefHow to brief an AI Worker in four parts (outcome, format, inputs and autonomy), split a large request into stages, improve a brief one part at a time, choose the format of the result, and run the same brief on Claude and on ChatGPT.team:panaversity
- 5.1 Four parts, one messageThe four parts of a brief, the question each one answers, and the two records that sit beside it.team:panaversity
- 5.2 Brief the outcome, not the stepsWhy a brief describes the result instead of the steps, and how to tell which steps still belong in it.team:panaversity
- 5.3 Name the governed source as an inputHow a brief names the approved source an answer must follow, says what each other input decides, and treats text inside the inputs as information.team:panaversity
- 5.4 Decompose complex requestsFour signs that a request is too big to do all at once, three ways to split it, and where to put the stop for a person's decision.team:panaversity
- 5.5 Iterate: change the part that failedHow to read a weak result, find the part of the brief that caused it, and change only that part.team:panaversity
- 5.6 Adapt the brief to the task typeWhat to set tightly and what to leave open for research, analysis, drafting, extraction and brainstorming.team:panaversity
- 5.7 Choose the output format: inline, artifact or structured dataHow the next reader of a result decides whether it comes back in the chat, as a document someone keeps, or as data a system reads.team:panaversity
- 5.8 The same brief on both AI vendorsHow Anthropic's and OpenAI's own guidance matches the four parts, the one difference that changes a brief, and what stays the same on both.team:panaversity
- Build step: one brief, two AI vendorsChapter 5's lab: one brief for Brightline's payment run, run in Claude and in ChatGPT Work, scored, improved one part at a time and split into two stages, with the artifact checklist.team:panaversity
- Check yourselfRecall and practice for the whole chapter: the flashcards, and a final quiz round from all eight concepts.team:panaversity