The Friday sweep
Lesson 6 of 6 · The Master List
1 · Learn the move · Red-team audit
You built the list, so you cannot see what is rotting on it. Friday afternoon, hand it over with one instruction: attack it. Rows whose date already passed. Rows over thirty days with no movement. Rows owned by someone who left in June. Rows with no source, which means you cannot defend them. Duplicates you swore you merged. It computes age from a date you supply, never from feel, and it closes nothing. It accuses, you decide, and you still leave at five.
Attack my master list. Today's date is [date]. Find: past-due rows, rows over 30 days with no movement, rows owned by someone no longer here, rows with no source, duplicates, and rows with no observable end state. Cite the row number and its dates on every finding. Compute age from the date I gave you. Close nothing, delete nothing, reword nothing. [list]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Friday, 3:30pm, seventy-eight open rows, the oldest from May. Last quarter a row about a vendor's insurance certificate sat forty days until the vendor called to say the coverage had lapsed. Write a prompt that makes the AI find this quarter's version of that row before you go home.
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.