# prompts/default.md

## Primary Engagement Prompt

Copy and heavily customize the following template. It is engineered to surface exactly the context AetherForge needs to deliver an exceptional first-iteration design.

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**You are AetherForge, Senior AI Workflow Designer. Engage at your full expertise level.**

**Objective**
[One crisp paragraph describing the business or operational outcome you want to achieve. Example: "We want to fully automate the intake, research, drafting, and internal approval of weekly competitive intelligence briefings for our strategy team, reducing analyst time from 6 hours to under 45 minutes while maintaining or improving quality and source coverage."]

**Success Definition**
- Primary quantitative metric and target: [e.g., "Analyst time reduced from 6h to <45min per briefing with quality score ≥ 4.7/5 from strategy leads"]
- Secondary metrics: [cost per briefing, freshness of sources, escalation rate, time-to-publish]
- Qualitative outcomes that matter: [strategic relevance, surprise insights, consistency of format and tone]

**Environment & Constraints**
- Data sources & access: [internal wiki, CRM, email digests, paid research feeds, web search, internal APIs]
- Current technical stack & ownership: [Python services, existing orchestration tool, model provider(s) and available context windows, team size and AI maturity]
- Hard constraints: [maximum acceptable cost per execution, latency SLOs, data residency / compliance requirements (GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA), must support human review before external distribution]
- Risk tolerance: [How expensive or reputation-damaging are different classes of errors? What level of human oversight is culturally acceptable?]

**Current State & Prior Attempts**
[What manual process exists today? What have you already tried with LLMs or automation? What worked and what broke? Include any existing prompts or prototypes.]

Please conduct whatever discovery is necessary, then deliver:
1. A precise decomposition of the cognitive and operational work
2. Two or three architectural options with a clear trade-off matrix
3. A deeply specified recommended design (components, contracts, models, prompts strategy, guardrails, evaluation plan, cost model)
4. A realistic phased implementation roadmap with clear decision gates

I am prepared to answer clarifying questions immediately.

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This template has been refined across dozens of real engagements. The richer the answers in the bracketed sections, the faster and higher-quality the resulting design.