AI Context Window Packing List

Overview

Use this skill when the user is about to ask an AI tool for help and wants a reusable preflight checklist for packing the right context without dumping secrets, clutter, or irrelevant background into the conversation.

This is a prompt-only document organization skill. It creates copyable and printable context preparation artifacts. It does not connect to AI services, send prompts, fetch files, read private accounts, request credentials, run code, or decide what an external AI system will do.

Trigger

Use this skill when the user asks for:

• An AI context checklist, prompt context checklist, AI brief template, or context window packing list.
• Help deciding what background, constraints, examples, or snippets to include in an AI prompt.
• A reusable prompt preparation card for work, school, writing, planning, coding, or research tasks.
• A privacy-safe way to remove secrets before pasting content into an AI tool.
• A paste-ready brief skeleton with placeholders.

Do not use this skill to connect to an AI provider, submit prompts automatically, scrape files, bypass privacy rules, process credentials, or encourage users to paste secrets into external tools.

Intake

Ask only what is needed to build the packing list:

• What task the user wants the AI tool to perform.
• What output format the user needs, such as email, table, checklist, plan, summary, code review, rewrite, outline, or decision brief.
• Who the audience is and what tone, reading level, or decision context matters.
• What source snippets, examples, constraints, deadlines, standards, or known facts must be included.
• What private or sensitive information must be removed before pasting.
• Whether the user wants a compact card, a detailed worksheet, or both.

If the user provides sensitive text, help them convert it into neutral placeholders. Do not repeat passwords, private account numbers, access tokens, secret keys, confidential client details, or private messages unless the user has already redacted them.

Workflow

1. Confirm the task, target output, audience, and success criteria.
2. Separate context into must include, helpful if space allows, and omit for privacy or noise.
3. Build a compact packing list with sections for goal, audience, source snippets, constraints, examples, desired format, and quality checks.
4. Add a redaction row for names, account numbers, passwords, private messages, access tokens, client data, confidential files, medical details, and other sensitive material.
5. Add a clutter removal row for repeated text, old drafts, unrelated history, vague backstory, and unsupported assumptions.
6. Add a quality check row that helps the user judge whether the AI had enough context after the first response.
7. Generate a paste-ready brief skeleton with placeholders only. Do not send it anywhere.

Output Format

Return these sections:

1. Task Snapshot: the user's goal, target output, audience, tone, constraints, and deadline.
2. Context Packing List: must include, helpful if space allows, and omit categories.
3. Privacy Redaction Row: specific items to remove, generalize, or replace with placeholders before pasting.
4. Clutter Removal Row: items to shorten or leave out because they waste context window space.
5. Source Snippet Slots: labeled areas for facts, excerpts, examples, prior drafts, data notes, and decision rules.
6. Desired Format Card: final answer shape, headings, length, style, and any required fields.
7. Quality Check Row: signs that the output had enough context and signs that the user should add more.
8. Paste-Ready Brief Skeleton: a reusable template with placeholders, not a completed external prompt submission.
9. Boundary Notes: no AI service connection, no automatic sending, no credentials, and remove secrets before using external tools.

For a quick request, provide a one-page packing list and the paste-ready brief skeleton first.

Packing Guidance

Use short, reusable labels that work on a printed checklist, notes app, or shared document:

• GOAL: What should the AI produce or decide?
• AUDIENCE: Who will read or use the output?
• SOURCE: What facts, snippets, data, or examples must the AI see?
• CONSTRAINTS: What rules, limits, tone, deadline, format, or policy matters?
• EXAMPLES: What good or bad examples should guide the response?
• FORMAT: What sections, length, fields, or file shape should come back?
• CHECK: How will the user know the answer is useful?
• REDACT: What must be removed, generalized, or replaced before pasting?
• OMIT: What background creates noise or privacy risk?

Boundary Rules

• Do not connect to AI services, submit prompts, fetch private files, access accounts, run code, or use credentials.
• Do not ask users to paste passwords, private keys, tokens, account numbers, private messages, or confidential records.
• If sensitive information appears, replace it with neutral placeholders such as [CLIENT_NAME], [ACCOUNT_ID], [PRIVATE_MESSAGE], or [INTERNAL_POLICY].
• Do not promise that any AI tool will keep pasted information private or produce correct results.
• For legal, medical, financial, employment, academic, or security contexts, tell the user to follow applicable rules and use qualified review where needed.
• Keep the artifact reusable, compact, and focused on context preparation rather than prompt automation.

Acceptance Criteria

1. Produces a copyable or printable AI context window packing list.
2. Sorts context into must include, helpful if space allows, and omit for privacy or noise.
3. Includes goal, audience, source snippets, constraints, examples, desired format, quality checks, and privacy removals.
4. Generates a paste-ready brief skeleton with placeholders only.
5. Warns users to remove secrets and private data before pasting into external AI tools.
6. Does not connect to AI services, send prompts, request credentials, browse, run code, use APIs, or require network access.

Example Prompts

• "Make me an AI context checklist for asking for help with a project plan."
• "I need a reusable prompt prep card so I stop forgetting key background."
• "Build a privacy-safe AI brief template for a client draft."
• "Help me decide what to include and what to omit before I paste this into an AI tool."
• "Create a printable context window packing list for my team."