The Agent Task Brief Card — Tell Any AI Agent Exactly What Done Looks Like

Most bad AI output starts as a bad brief. 'Write me something about X' leaves the outcome, the sources, and the limits to guesswork — and the guesswork is what you pay to redo. This fill-in card fixes the start of the job: six fields — the mission in one sentence, what done actually looks like, the only sources allowed (with the line that stops invented facts), the boundaries, the checkpoints, and your own quality bar. Inside: the card itself, one fully worked example, the wrapper prompt that carries the brief into any chat, a 60-second three-line version for small tasks, and a fix-it table that maps each common failure back to the field that caused it. Two minutes before the work starts, far fewer redos at the end. More $1 micro-products in the shop — come see what's new, you're invited.