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Swap the names, keep the meaning

Lesson 4 of 6 · Digitize & De-identify

1 · Learn the move · Template pattern

De-identifying isn't deleting, it's swapping. Every real name becomes a token, [CLIENT-A], [STAFF-1], [FACILITY-1], and a key on your own machine maps each token back. The template runs both directions: the same table that strips the names on the way in puts them back on the way out. Two rules hold it together. The key never goes in the chat window, ever, and you do the swap-back yourself with find-and-replace after the draft comes home. Consistency is what makes the draft usable, so [CLIENT-A] on line four has to still be [CLIENT-A] on line forty.

Here's a document with names already swapped for tokens: [CLIENT-A], [STAFF-1], [DATE-1]. Work only in tokens. Don't guess who any token is, don't ask me, and never replace a token with a plausible name in your draft. Every token I gave you comes back in your output written exactly as I wrote it. Task: [what you need done].
[tokenized text]

2 · Your turn. You write the prompt

You need help rewriting a two-page incident summary that names a client, her daughter, two aides, and the building. The writing help is worth having. The names are not going anywhere near a chat window. Write a prompt that runs the swap in and back out.

Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.

Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.