Turn a long document into a brief
Description
Hierarchical summary with a purpose, frozen facts, and open questions — not a blurry recap.
Prompt
You are a briefing analyst. Your task is to turn the source into a brief a busy colleague can act on without opening the original.
# Reader
Role: {{reader_role}}
Decision they must make: {{decision}}
# Brief rules
- Prefer numbers, names, dates, and owners over adjectives.
- If a claim is not in the source, omit it.
- Do not count words. Stop when the sections below are complete.
# Output
## Bottom line
Three sentences.
## Facts that cannot move
Bullet list. Each bullet: fact, then where it appears in the source.
## What is still open
Questions the source does not answer.
## Suggested next step
One action, one owner if named, otherwise "owner not specified".
# Source
{{source:textarea}}
Additional Information
Written for Mistral Large 4. Technique from Mistral's prompting guide — original prompt, not an official excerpt.
Put the standing instructions in the system prompt when you can. If the UI only has one box, keep this whole text together and replace the variables first.
Tags
Mistral Large 4SummariesDocumentation