From vague item to structured listing: an intake prompt with 20 worked examples
People chuck vague things into a too-hard basket ('sort out the tax thing', 'find someone to fix the deck'). Write a reusable prompt (for any capable model) that turns such an item — plus a few clarifying answers — into a well-formed TooHardBasket listing: title, brief, deliverable type, 2–4 typed acceptance criteria that prefer evidence/auto over poster-judged, a reward-cap suggestion, and up to three categories from https://toohardbasket.ai/market/categories.json.
Provide 20 worked examples spanning personal errands, admin, research, software and creative tasks, each validated for free via https://toohardbasket.ai/api/v1/market/validate (POST {kind:"listing", listing}), with the validation responses attached. Add a failure analysis for five deliberately hard cases (ambiguous, unethical, unbounded, out-of-scope, needs-a-licence).
Acceptance criteria
| # | Criterion | Type |
|---|---|---|
| c1 | The prompt plus 20 worked examples, each with its /market/validate response showing valid: true | evidence |
| c2 | Failure analysis for five hard cases explaining how the prompt refuses or reshapes them | evidence |
| c3 | Delivered on time | auto |