Working with AI Conversations
Summarize a Chat for Handoff
Asks the assistant to write a handoff brief with goal, decisions, constraints and next steps, ready to paste into a new chat.
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Working with AI Conversations
Converts a troubleshooting or learning chat into a clean step-by-step guide that leaves out the dead ends and keeps what worked.
Designed for general-purpose AI assistantsPublished November 2026
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This conversation ended with something that worked. Turn it into a how-to guide that someone else could follow without reading the chat.
What the guide is for: {{task the guide achieves}}
Who will follow it and what they already know: {{reader}}
Where it will be stored (wiki, README, document) and any template: Markdown for a team wiki
Environment or versions it applies to, if known: as used in the chat
Work through these steps and show them in order:
1. Reconstruct the path to the working result. Identify which steps in the chat actually produced it, and which attempts were dead ends or were later replaced. List the dead ends separately with one line each on why they failed, because they may be worth a warning.
2. Write the guide with these sections: Goal, Before you start (requirements, access, versions, backups), Steps, How to check it worked, Common problems, and Rollback or undo if the steps change something.
3. Steps must be numbered, one action each, in the order that works. Use exact commands, settings and names as they appeared in the chat, in code blocks. Add the expected result after a step where it helps.
4. Replace anything specific to this one situation, such as names, ids and personal paths, with clearly marked placeholders, and list them. Never keep passwords, tokens, keys or private data.
5. Mark any step where the chat did not confirm the result, or where something was assumed, as [unverified].
6. End with "What I could not confirm from the chat": gaps a person would hit when following the guide.
Rules: do not add steps, commands or settings that were not in the conversation, even if you think they would help. If you know of a likely improvement, put it in a separate "Possible improvements, not tested" list. Do not claim the guide has been tested by anyone but me.2 required fields are empty and will stay as a {{placeholder}} in the copied text.
Illustrative only. Real answers depend on your input and the assistant you use.
Path to the working result: steps 4, 7 and 9 of the chat. Dead ends: reinstalling the package (did not change the error), editing the PATH variable (already correct). # How to fix "port 5432 already in use" when starting Postgres locally ## Goal Start the local Postgres container without a port conflict. ## Before you start Docker installed; a terminal; the container name (placeholder: <CONTAINER_NAME>). ## Steps 1. Find what uses the port: lsof -i :5432 Expected: a process line with its PID. 2. If it is an old Postgres you no longer need, stop it: brew services stop postgresql [unverified on Linux] 3. Start the container: docker start <CONTAINER_NAME> ## How to check it worked Run docker ps and confirm the container shows "Up". ## Common problems If lsof shows nothing, restart Docker Desktop. ## Placeholders <CONTAINER_NAME> What I could not confirm: whether step 2 works on Linux.
Dead ends are valuable. A short "do not do this" note can save the next person an hour, so the prompt keeps them separate from the steps.
If the chat contains several unrelated problems, ask for one guide per problem. A guide that covers three things is hard to find and hard to follow.
Treat a guide that nobody has followed as a draft. A five-minute test run in a clean environment is the most useful review.
To keep the whole conversation alongside the guide, the AI Chat to Markdown Converter turns a pasted chat into clean Markdown you can store with it.
Working with AI Conversations
Asks the assistant to write a handoff brief with goal, decisions, constraints and next steps, ready to paste into a new chat.
Working with AI Conversations
Writes a searchable title, tags, key terms and a one-line description for a finished chat, so it is easy to find months later.
Working with AI Conversations
Makes the assistant ask the questions it needs, in small rounds, before it writes anything, so the first answer fits your real situation.