How to Build a Trello Board Template from a Kanban Brief
Trello templates invent @alex and a Calendar Power-Up. The brief had four lists and WIP 2. SAMPLE CARDS NONE.
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Map only pasted lists
Build a Trello board template from a kanban brief. No invented members, labels, or extra lists. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.
Paste these fields before you hit run:
Kanban brief (lists, card types, WIP I allow): [Brief]
Label names I allow (or NONE): [Labels]
Sample card titles I allow (or NONE): [Cards]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent (members, Power-Ups, extra lists): [Never]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
Max lists: [Max]
Board name I lock (or UNKNOWN): [Name]
That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.
Keep sample cards NONE if titles were not locked
Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.
Walk the Generate list in order:
- Honesty ledger: Brief nouns, Labels, Cards, Name, Lang, Max. Forbidden: invented members, invented Power-Ups, extra lists.
- Lists: at most Max from Brief. OTHER leftover lists stay leftover.
- Cards: only Cards. If Cards is NONE, write SAMPLE CARDS NONE rather than inventing titles.
- Labels: only Labels. If NONE, write LABELS NONE.
- Refuse list: YouTrack states, Jira JQL, Asana sections, Butler rules not in Brief.
- Members: if Brief has no people, write MEMBERS NONE.
- Never: do not enable a Calendar Power-Up unless listed.
- Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Count lists vs Max. Format as Format.
If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.
Members stay NONE without people in the brief
Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.
Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:
- Trello board from Brief. Not YouTrack, not Jira, not Asana.
- Never invent members, Power-Ups, or extra lists.
- Stay at or under Max lists.
- No emojis.
When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.
Refuse YouTrack Jira and Asana names
Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.
Tags on the card (trello board template, kanban brief trello, no invented members) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.
Fill the card, then run
Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.