Asking in the Shape It Understands

What it is for

It is a computation engine wearing a search box. A natural question fails and a slightly different phrasing succeeds for a reason worth understanding once — this covers the shape it actually parses.

The skill Copy

It is a computation engine with a natural-language front end, not a chatbot.
The front end fails in predictable ways.

What works:
- **Units in the query, always.** `50 km/h to mph`, `3 tablespoons in ml`. The
  unit is what selects the right computation.
- **The operation named**, not implied. `integrate x^2 sin x dx` beats "what is
  the integral of...". `solve x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0` beats "find x".
- **One question.** Two clauses joined by "and" are parsed as one query and
  usually as neither.
- **Explicit variables** in anything symbolic: `d/dx` rather than "derivative".

What fails, and the fix:
- A question with a pronoun or a reference to the previous query — there is no
  conversation state. Repeat the subject.
- A word with a units meaning and an everyday meaning. "second", "minute",
  "mole", "pound". Disambiguate: `pound (mass)`.
- Anything that needs a source rather than a computation. It will answer, and
  the answer's currency is whatever its data set says.

Always open **Step-by-step solution** when there is one. It shows the method,
which is what tells you whether it understood the question you meant.

How to install it Copy

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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