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Prompts

Prompts I've written, run, and corrected afterwards. They live here at stable URLs because that is the only way a prompt survives being useful — a screenshot in a group chat can't be fixed when it turns out to be wrong, and a copy in someone's notes app never gets the improvement.

Each one is a plain .md file with a page around it. Copy the text, paste it into Claude Code or whatever you use, and change whatever doesn't fit your repository. They're written to be adapted, not obeyed.

In this corner
22 August 2026 · for Claude Code
Recreate a survey sheet
A framed 1912 map on a Pachmarhi wall became an interactive page in an evening. The brief that taught me: a fidelity contract between traced and stylised, close-ups of the margins where dates hide, and one sentence on why the map stopped you.
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22 August 2026 · for Claude Code
Debug a Git auto-deploy that quietly died
A merged change and a live page are separated by a chain that fails silently — token, webhook, server-side clone, pull. Fingerprint the exact last-deployed commit, walk the chain in order, and prove the fix by pushing an invisible marker. Written the day all three links broke at once.
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22 August 2026 · for Claude Code
From voice note to published page
The prompt behind "spoken by Sree, shaped into pages" — turn a rambling dictation into a finished page that still sounds like you. Mostly a list of things not to do to a transcript, plus the rule that earns the most: fact-check the speaker, and let the good corrections show.
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15 August 2026 · for Claude Code
Make a site readable by AI answer engines
Google renders JavaScript. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot largely do not — so a site that ranks fine can still be invisible to the engines people increasingly ask instead. Eight steps, starting with an audit that loads every page with JS switched off and counts what survives.
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A prompt earns a place here once I've run it on something real and it has already been wrong at least once. Until then it's a draft, and drafts don't need URLs.

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