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Agent Instruction Prompt Formatter
Formats fuzzy agent instructions into a structured prompt with objective, available tools, constraints, success criteria, and failure handling.
Brain Dump Prompt Formatter
Converts a stream-of-consciousness prompt into a structured one with Task, Context, Constraints, Requirements, and Output Format sections.
Overview
Most prompts start life as a brain dump. You know what you want but write it out as one long run-on thought — a mix of goals, assumptions, constraints, and output preferences all jammed together. AI models can usually extract enough to produce something, but structured input produces much better output. This formatter takes whatever you have and reorganises it without changing what you actually asked for.
How to use this resource
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Write out what you want without filtering
Don't try to structure it. Just write out your goal, assumptions, constraints, and output preferences in whatever order they come to mind.
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Paste your text into the formatter
Open in Prompt Formatter and paste your brain dump. The formatter will identify the intent and pull out the relevant sections.
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Review the structured output
Check that Task, Constraints, and Requirements match what you intended. The formatter doesn't invent content — if something is missing, add it directly.
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Use the clean prompt
Copy the structured result and use it as your prompt. Structured input produces more predictable output from AI models.
Why This Works
- Separating goal from requirements removes the most common source of AI misinterpretation — conflating what you want done with how you want it done
- An explicit role section narrows the model's interpretation scope before it reads the rest of the prompt
- Omitting empty sections keeps the prompt tight — AI models don't need placeholder headers with no content
- Formatting without rewriting means you validate the structure without risking that the intent gets lost in paraphrase
Best for
- Prompts you wrote quickly without a structure in mind
- Instructions that mix multiple concerns in a single paragraph
- Prompts that worked but you want to improve without rewriting from scratch
- Any situation where your output was off and you suspect the prompt structure was the reason
Not for
- Writing a prompt from scratch when you don't have an existing input to work from
- Prompts that need major rewriting, not just restructuring
- Highly specific domain prompts where section labels need to be customised
Use cases
- Reformatting a product planning prompt you typed quickly in a notes app
- Cleaning up instructions you gave an AI that produced a mediocre result
- Preparing a brain dump before handing it to another team member to use
- Turning your own rough draft of requirements into something reusable
FAQ
Why did some of the five sections disappear from my formatted prompt?
A missing Role, Context, or Output Format heading means your brain dump had nothing to put under it. One of the formatter's rules is to omit any section entirely when the input has no corresponding content, rather than leave an empty header. If you want that section present, add the detail to your messy text before you paste it in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Which section does a 'must not' rule from my brain dump end up under?
Constraints and preferences land in the Requirements section as a bullet list, while Goal stays a single sentence about what to accomplish. So 'keep it under 200 words' or 'no jargon' becomes a Requirements bullet, not part of Goal. The formatter sorts your existing words into these buckets; it won't invent a rule you didn't write down.
Can I rename the Role and Output Format headings for a domain-specific prompt?
The formatter emits a fixed set of headings (Role, Goal, Context, Requirements, Output Format), so it won't produce custom labels like 'Legal Standard' or 'API Schema' on its own. Rename them yourself in the structured output it returns, then run that edited prompt in the assistant you choose. It reorganizes your words under those five headings and stops there.
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Structure a Rambling Prompt Into Clear Sections
You cram the goal, context, constraints, format, and an example into one run-on prompt, and the AI misses half of it. Here's how to structure a prompt into sections: sort each instruction into Goal, Context, Task, Constraints, Output, and Non-goals — no rewriting, so the gaps show.