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Summarise this long document faithfully

A report, contract, or spec you have to understand but not read twice.

Longsummarisingreading
Summarise the document below for someone who has to act on it and will not read the original.

Structure:
1. **The claim** in one sentence. What is this document arguing or asking for?
2. **The five things that matter**, each with the section or page they come from.
3. **What is decided versus what is proposed.** Keep these strictly apart.
4. **Numbers and dates** that a reader would be embarrassed to get wrong.
5. **What the document does not cover** that a reader would reasonably assume it does.

Rules: use the document's own terms rather than paraphrasing them into something neater. If a passage is ambiguous, quote it and say it is ambiguous. Do not add context from your own knowledge unless you label it clearly as yours.

Document:

Making it yours

  • Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
  • Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
  • If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.

Reading and synthesis. Getting the substance out of a document, and reconciling sources that do not quite agree.

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