How to Build a YouTrack Agile Board Template from a Workflow Brief
YouTrack boards invent a sprint name and an assignee. Columns come from the brief. If a state is missing, write STATE UNKNOWN.
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Map each column from the workflow brief
Build a YouTrack agile board template from a workflow brief. No invented assignees, sprints, or states. 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:
Workflow brief (states, types, swimlanes I allow): [Brief]
Project key I lock (or UNKNOWN): [Key]
Custom fields I allow: [Fields]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent (assignees, sprints, extra states): [Never]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
Max columns: [Max]
Agile bundle note I lock (or NONE): [Bundle]
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.
Leave assignees blank when none were named
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, Key, Fields, Bundle, Lang, Max. Forbidden: invented assignees, invented sprint names, extra states.
- Column map: each Brief state to one column. Stay at or under Max. OTHER leftover states stay leftover.
- Board sketch: project Key or KEY UNKNOWN. Issue types from Brief only. Swimlanes only if Brief names them.
- Fields: only Fields. Do not add Story Points unless listed.
- Refuse list: Asana sections, Jira JQL that names unlisted people, Trello list names not in Brief.
- Bundle: quote Bundle or write BUNDLE NONE. Do not invent a sprint calendar.
- Never: do not assign issues to a person not in Brief.
- Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Count columns 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.
Refuse invented sprints and Jira fields
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:
- YouTrack agile board from Brief. Not Asana, not Jira, not Trello.
- Never invent assignees, sprints, or extra states.
- Stay at or under Max columns.
- 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.
Print column count against the max
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 (youtrack agile board template, no invented assignees, workflow brief youtrack) 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.