The Unbroken Chain

Give each link its own tags and the chain will hold together across a long conversation: <chain_plan> at the top so it knows the shape of the race, <this_link> for the job in hand, <baton> naming precisely which earlier output to build on, and the stop instruction last, where it is obeyed most reliably. Because Claude handles a great deal of material comfortably, the whole chain can live in one chat without the early links fading. Ask for each link's output in its own Artifact, titled, so that at the draft link you can say "use the outline in the artifact called Outline v2" rather than "the outline above" - a named baton beats a gestured one. The chain recipe itself belongs in a Project.

From the book Claude handles very long material well, so a whole research-to-draft chain can live in one chat; ask it to put each link's output in an Artifact so you can edit or download the outline and draft between steps. Save your chain recipe in a Project so each new run follows the same steps.

• Tag the link: <chain_plan>, <baton>, <this_link>, stop instruction last.
• Name the artifact you are handing on, never "the outline above".
• Ask what is weakest in a link, not whether it is good.
• One Artifact per link makes re-forging a single link easy.
• Keep the chain recipe in a Project so each run matches.

<who_we_are>
Twelve women in a self-help group near Warangal. Between us we have kitchen experience, no business experience, and a small pooled fund. We can sell within our own and neighbouring villages to begin with.
</who_we_are>

<chain_plan>
Four links, in order: shortlist products, outline a one-page plan, write the plan, render it in Telugu. I approve each link before the next begins.
</chain_plan>

<this_link>
Link 1 only. Five pickles we could make from produce grown around Warangal. For each: rough raw-material cost per kg in rupees, how long it keeps without refrigeration, and how hard it would be to sell locally with one line of reasoning.

Put it in an Artifact titled "Product shortlist" as a table.
</this_link>

<honesty>
Underneath the table, name the two figures you are least confident about and say what they depend on. I would rather know which numbers are soft than discover it after we have bought vegetables.
</honesty>

<stop>
End after the shortlist. No outline, no plan, no Telugu. I will choose three products and then open link 2.
</stop>

<my_channel>
Hindi-English travel videos for budget travellers. The next one is a 10-minute guide to a winter day trip from Srinagar up to Gulmarg.
</my_channel>

<chain_plan>
Link 1 research. Link 2 scene outline. Link 3 script. Link 4 title and description. One at a time.
</chain_plan>

<this_link>
Twelve facts and tips my viewers would want: getting there and back within a day, rough costs in rupees, what winter clothing actually matters at that altitude, how gondola booking works, and the mistakes first-timers make.

One line each, in an Artifact titled "Gulmarg research".
</this_link>

<verification>
Tag with [check] every line that depends on something seasonal or administrative - fares, timings, road closures, booking rules. You are working from what you have read, not from this week, and I am the one who can confirm it on the ground. Over-tag rather than under-tag; an untagged wrong fare ends up in the script.
</verification>

<stop>
Research only. No outline, no script, no titles.
</stop>

<reference_material>
[Paste in whatever you already hold, and put it here rather than at the end: last year's leaflet, the municipal advisory, the notice the housing society circulated. Claude reads long material placed first and follows the instruction placed last.]
</reference_material>

<situation>
I am an NGO volunteer in Pune. This sheet gets printed and pushed under doors during the monsoon, so whatever is wrong in it stays wrong on a few hundred doors.
</situation>

<scope_limits>
Breeding prevention, and nothing adjacent to it. No medicine names, no home remedies, no symptom lists, no treatment. Exactly one clinical sentence is permitted in the finished sheet - "see a doctor if fever continues" - and not a word beyond it. If the line you are about to write crosses that boundary, stop writing and tell me instead.
</scope_limits>

<task>
This is the first of four - then draft, then review, then Marathi - and our health centre stands between this step and the next.

Propose eight household actions against breeding, one line apiece, with the body that recommends it in brackets.

Open with two lines on anything in the material above you would not repeat this year, and why. Close by naming the two proposals the health centre is most likely to argue with; those are what I will raise with them first.

Stop at the eight. Nothing is drafted while they stand unapproved.
</task>