Answers You Can Point to a Page For

Answers You Can Point to a Page For

A first message that forces page numbers, exact quotes and an explicit NOT IN DOCUMENT, plus the checks that catch a figure merged across two pages.

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What it is for

A pasteable opening message that forces page-anchored, quoted answers and an explicit refusal when something is absent, followed by the habits that catch a wrong number anyway. Use it whenever an answer from a PDF will be quoted, reported or acted on. It prevents confident paraphrase that blends two pages into one wrong fact.

The skill

Send this as your first message after uploading, then ask your real question.

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For every answer in this conversation, follow these rules:
- Answer only from this document. If the document does not say it, reply
  exactly: NOT IN DOCUMENT.
- Give the page number for every claim.
- Quote the sentence you are relying on, in the document's own words, before
  you paraphrase it.
- If two parts of the document disagree, show both and name both pages
  instead of choosing between them.
- Carry every unit, currency, date and footnote marker across exactly as
  printed. Never round a number.
- If my question assumes something the document does not state, tell me which
  assumption is unsupported before you answer.
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Then work like this:
1. Ask one question at a time. A three-part question returns an answer whose
   middle part is the unsourced one.
2. Open the cited page yourself for anything that will end up in your own
   work. A citation tells you where it looked, not that it read it correctly.
3. When a number matters, ask twice by different routes: "what does the
   document state the total was", then "list every figure on the page where
   that total appears". Two routes to the same number is a check; one is a
   hope.
4. On a long document, ask which sections it did not use to answer. If the
   appendix that matters is not mentioned, ask about it directly by name.

The failure this prevents: a fluent summary that quietly files last year's
figure under this year's heading, from a page you never opened.

How to install it

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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