The Rewrite Request

the rewrite prompt

Part of: Resume Bullet Booster

Everyone writes the same weak resume line: "responsible for the front desk." A recruiter skims past it in half a second. Over the next eight lessons you'll build a small tool that takes a limp task description and hands back a strong bullet: "Managed a 40-person front desk, cutting check-in time by 30%." Same job. The second line gets you the interview. What you're building The finished tool is one function you run from a terminal: paste in a plain task, get back a punchy bullet. Under the hood it runs the same loop that sits inside most AI products. Read a task, wrap it in a prompt, call the model, clean the reply, check it against your rules, print it. This lesson builds step two, the rewrite prompt . The system prompt is the product A rewrite tool lives or dies on its prompt. The persona and the rules go in the system prompt, which you set once and reuse for every task. The actual task the user typed goes in a user message. Split that way, you write the rules a single time and swap only the input on each call. Why the "Return only the bullet" line matters Left alone, a chat model gets chatty: "Sure! Here's a strong version:…". That preamble breaks everything downstream, because

Challenge: Compose the Rewrite Prompt