Reverse Prompting

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reverse-prompting.prompt

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name: reverse-prompting
when: the task is underspecified and you're missing answers only the requester has (audience, goal, the one action)
when_not: nothing is missing from the requester — if the blocker is hard limits, use constraints-first
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Ask for the missing inputs first, then produce. Ask: what must I learn from the requester before building anything at all?

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo xtompie/prism (MIT). A "Reverse Prompting" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.