How to Clean a STROBE-Style Abstract from Pasted Methods
STROBE cleaners mint n=120 and a p-value. Methods had a chess club and no results paragraph. Leave RESULTS NOT IN PASTE.
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Banner that this is not CONSORT or PRISMA
Clean an observational-study abstract in STROBE style from pasted methods only. No invented results, p-values, n, or DOIs. Not a CONSORT or PRISMA card. 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:
Pasted methods: [Methods]
Pasted abstract (or NONE): [Abstract]
Design words I may keep (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional): [Design]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent (results, n, DOI, p): [Never]
Max words for cleaned abstract: [Budget or 300]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
What this is not: [Not]
Setting as pasted (or UNKNOWN): [Setting]
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.
Fill only slots that have paste
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:
- Banner: not medical advice, not CONSORT, not PRISMA. Quote Not.
- Honesty ledger: Design, Setting, Budget, Lang, every exposure noun in Methods. Forbidden: invented n, p, DOI, outcome if not in paste.
- STROBE-style slots: design; setting; participants; exposure; outcome as pasted; results slot = RESULTS NOT IN PASTE if Abstract lacks numbers; conclusions slot = NONE if not pasted.
- Cleaned abstract: fill only slots that have paste. Stay under Budget. No puffery.
- Refuse list: DOI minting, p-values, confidence intervals, n, journal name invent, trial registry invent.
- Setting: quote Setting or UNKNOWN. Do not mint a city.
- Never: do not write 'significant association'.
- Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Print word count vs Budget. 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 DOIs n and p-values
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:
- STROBE-style cleaner from Methods. Not CONSORT, not PRISMA, and not medical advice.
- Never invent results, n, p-values, or DOIs.
- Stay under Budget words.
- 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 word count against the budget
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 (strobe style abstract cleaner, pasted methods no invented results, no invented observational dois) 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.