Work With Context, Files & Sources
I can identify what AI needs to know, choose which source should be trusted, and inspect whether AI actually used the right evidence.
I can identify what AI needs to know, choose which source should be trusted, and inspect whether AI actually used the right evidence.
Required: computer or phone with AI/GPT for the live prompting route. Bring your own small work task or use the starter case. Your course playbook should be open for notes.
Follow the session exercise, run only the text explicitly marked as a prompting activity, inspect the result and record evidence in your session card.
A completed session card, a checked result or decision, and an update to your Personal AI Work Playbook.
Explanations and workbook templates are not prompts. Prompting activities are labelled explicitly.
THREE BITES. ONE PRACTICAL MOVE.
What you'll practise
- Identify the minimum useful context for a real task.
- Choose a source of truth when sources conflict.
- Inspect evidence, conflicts and unknowns rather than trusting fluent output.
A better instruction cannot compensate for the wrong reality.
Try it with the supplied case
Question: Which information should I trust? Input: S2/S3.
- In 4 minutes choose the Q-104 price privately and give your reason.
- In 12 minutes rank P-SEP, P-JUN, the chat note and EX-103 by authority, date and scope. Prepare a tiny context pack for Q-104.
- In 12 minutes inspect a draft's important price claim. Open the original card, point to the exact row/exception, and revise unsupported claims.
- Change the enquiry to Q-103. Explain why a different applicable source can change the price.
Keep/check: Q-104 RM4,000; Q-103 RM1,500 under its explicit exception. Save one claim, exact supporting passage/value and limitation. AI's own “supported” label is not proof.
ANCHOR TASK GROUNDING PACK
Use this as your session notes and evidence. Do not paste the whole card into AI. Only text explicitly labelled Prompting exercise belongs in an AI chat.
ANCHOR TASK ______________________________________________________ CONTEXT PACK Task: ______________________________________________________ Facts needed: ______________________________________________________ Source material: ______________________________________________________ Examples to imitate: ______________________________________________________ Rules to obey: ______________________________________________________ Ignore: ______________________________________________________ Unknown: ______________________________________________________ SOURCE-OF-TRUTH RULE For fact ______________________, trust ______________________ because _________________________________________________. Do not trust __________________ because ____________________. EVIDENCE PATTERN Mark claims as: SUPPORTED / INFERENCE / CONFLICT / UNKNOWN One claim I checked: ______________________________________________________ PROOF What changed after grounding? ______________________________________________________ RETURN TO MY QUESTION Status: answered / demonstrated / needs more evidence / outside this course Evidence or gap: Next application:
Class rhythm
Field-guide bridge
Session 03 teaches how to ground real work. The Context Engineering field guide is where I go deeper into minimum useful context, source authority, conflict, freshness and how to prove that an important claim actually came from the right reality.