Most people open ChatGPT and start typing. That's where the trouble starts.
This is an open-source workflow pack for students who don't have time to read a 200-page book on prompt engineering, but who do have a paper due Sunday and a flight Friday morning. It's the same workflow used by working consultants and grad students. The only difference is now it fits on your phone.
The whole bet of this repo: your prompt isn't the lever. Your workflow is. Get the workflow right and a free AI account will out-perform a $200/month plan run badly.
Everything here is free. Everything is forkable. Everything is yours.
| If you have… | Start with |
|---|---|
| 10 minutes | The Levers → Syllabus → Calendar. One prompt, your week is on your phone. |
| 1 hour | All of the above + the rest of the prompt pack (study plan, practice quiz, résumé tailor, email-to-professor, research outline, meeting recap). |
| 1 weekend | All of the above + install both Skill recipes and submit your first prompt to the cookbook. |
If you're the kind of person who reads every footnote — start with the reading list. It's where the discipline came from.
You don't need to memorize CRAFT, RACE, CO-STAR, or the next acronym someone's going to launch a course on. You need three muscles.
ASK — Be specific. Action verbs. Specific scope.
- Weak: "help me with my paper."
- Strong: "outline a five-paragraph argument for my thesis using the three sources I uploaded."
CONTEXT — Set the scene. Brief the AI like a friend who skipped the lecture. Upload the syllabus. Paste the rubric. Name the class. AI doesn't know what you're working on until you tell it.
CONSTRAINTS — Shape the output. Table format. Three columns. Under 500 words. Ranked by effort vs impact. Without constraints, you're King Midas — you get exactly what you asked for, which is never what you wanted.
That's it. Every "framework" you've seen is repackaging these three. Run the levers, change the world.
brief-the-bot/
├── 01-the-levers/ ← The framework, with worked examples
├── 02-prompt-pack/ ← Copy-paste prompts for real student work
│ ├── syllabus-to-calendar.md ← Turn any syllabus into calendar invites
│ ├── study-plan.md ← Week-by-week plan, capped at YOUR hours
│ ├── practice-quiz.md ← Self-test with answer key + most-missed flag
│ ├── resume-tailor.md ← Tailored résumé + ranked gap analysis
│ ├── email-to-professor.md ← Specific, professional, sounds like you
│ ├── research-outline.md ← Source-grounded outline, no hallucinations
│ └── meeting-recap.md ← Action items + decisions from any transcript
├── 03-claude-skills/ ← Installable Skill recipes for claude.ai
├── 04-agent-sdk-stretch/ ← For the curious builders (drops May 2026)
├── cookbook/ ← Your wins. PR your best prompt.
├── examples/ ← Sample outputs so you know it works
├── glossary.md ← Friction curve, fluency trap, orchestrator
└── reading-list.md ← The books that built the discipline
- Open claude.ai (free account is fine), chatgpt.com, or gemini.google.com. The levers work in any of them.
- Open a Project (Claude/ChatGPT) or a Gem (Gemini). Projects let you upload context once and reuse it.
- Pick a prompt from
02-prompt-pack. Copy it. Paste it. Upload your file (syllabus, résumé, whatever the prompt asks for). - Read the output. Spot-check three things — a date, a number, a name. If those are right, the rest usually is. If they're not, run the prompt again with sharper context.
- Save what works. PR your wins to
cookbook/so the next student doesn't start from scratch.
This repo is the entry point. If it clicks, here's where to go next:
30-days-of-ai-strategy— A 30-day learning series for the same discipline applied to business decisions. Where the levers meet the C-suite.ai-strategy-field-guide— The full vendor-neutral playbook. Governance, ROI, evaluation, deployment. For when you stop being a student and start running the program.
The prompts in this repo work in Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. They were built and tested in Claude. The discipline is portable; the tool is not the point.
If a prompt doesn't work for you on the first try, that's the discipline working. Sharpen the ASK. Add the CONTEXT. Tighten the CONSTRAINTS. Run it again.
This repo gets stronger every time a student shares a prompt that worked for them. See the cookbook for how to PR your own. The starter pack is mine. The cookbook belongs to the next student.
Built by Devontae Williams — Senior Strategy Consultant at Deloitte, MBA candidate at Rollins College's Crummer Graduate School of Business, U.S. Army veteran (combat engineer / Sapper), founder of Textstone Labs.
Find me on LinkedIn if you build something with this. Especially if it works.
"The best AI users don't have the best prompts. They have the best discipline."
Stop prompting. Start orchestrating. You're a team lead now. Go build something.