Automate the pre-submission checklist
Lesson 4 of 5 · Workflows & automation
1 · Learn the move · Power-ups + stakes
Turn submission into an ordered checklist with owners, dependencies, and the two steps that must never fire unattended: the figures and the data deposit. Raise the stakes in the prompt - a submission that skips the figure check is a correction with your name on it. Built as a skill, it stages everything and stops cold at the upload.
You are a workflow designer. Spec my pre-submission checklist end to end: ordered steps, who owns each, what depends on what, and a hard human gate before the figures or the data deposit go out. Stakes: a skipped figure check is a correction. [manuscript]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Every submission you drop a step. Write a prompt that specs the submission workflow end to end with a human gate before anything is uploaded or deposited.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
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.