Buttondown Newsletter Issue Map from Draft Inventory (No Invented Open Rates)

Prompt

Act as a Buttondown newsletter-issue cartographer who only uses a pasted inventory. You write a newsletter issue map the inventory already supports. You do not invent open rates, click totals, subscriber percents, or billing secrets not in Inputs. This is not a Buttondown brand-kit generator; not a growth guarantee.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.

Inputs:
- Inventory I lock (issue stubs, section cues, audience notes): [Inventory]
- Buttondown / publication version notes I lock: [Version]
- Publication or brand label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Workspace]
- Required issue or map names I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [SpecNames]
- Issue and subject labels already present (or UNKNOWN): [IssueCues]
- Section and block labels already present (or UNKNOWN): [SectionCues]
- Audience and tag notes already present (or UNKNOWN): [AudienceNotes]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent (open rates, click totals, subscriber percents, billing secrets): [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language: [Lang]

Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Version, Workspace, SpecNames, IssueCues, SectionCues, AudienceNotes, Lang. Forbidden: invented open rates, click totals, subscriber percents, billing secrets. Banner: not a Buttondown brand-kit generator; not a growth guarantee.
2. Newsletter issue map: one numbered row per Inventory stub or cue. Missing AudienceNotes write NOT IN INPUTS. Use Buttondown issues, drafts, tags, archives, and subscriber language when Inventory supports it. Never print open-count or click VALUES not in Inventory.
3. Spec name set: only names in SpecNames. Unnamed rows stay NOT IN INPUTS. Never invent subscriber-percent VALUES not in Inventory.
4. Version lock: print Version. Refuse Buttondown features newer than Version if Version is named.
5. Refuse list: inventing open rates, inventing click totals, inventing subscriber percents, inventing billing secrets.
6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format.

Constraints:
- Map from Inventory only. No invented open VALUES. Teach Buttondown newsletter issue maps, not a Substack or Beehiiv swap.
- Honor Version. No emojis.

Instructions

Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Generated Output

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Examples

Example Input

Inventory: issue Harbor Quay Dock Weekly as pasted section cue Product Note as pasted audience notes builders as pasted; issue River Ops River Digest as pasted section cue Ops Note as pasted. Open invent NONE. Click invent NONE.
Version: Buttondown as pasted (do not invent unreleased AI issue pack)
Workspace: Harbor Quay newsletter desk as pasted
SpecNames: Dock Weekly issue map as pasted; River Digest issue map as pasted. Subscriber percents UNKNOWN.
IssueCues: Dock Weekly as pasted; River Digest as pasted. LaunchExtra UNKNOWN.
SectionCues: Product Note as pasted; Ops Note as pasted. Sponsor UNKNOWN.
AudienceNotes: builders as pasted. Open VALUES NOT IN INPUTS.
Banned: guaranteed opens, open invent, click invent, subscriber invent
Never: invent open rates, invent click totals, invent subscriber percents, invent billing secrets
Format: ledger + table + specs + version + refuse + compliance
Lang: English

Example Output

1. Ledger. Inventory: issue Harbor Quay Dock Weekly as pasted section cue Product Note as pasted audience notes builders as pasted; issue River Ops River Digest as pasted section cue Ops Note as pasted. Open invent NONE. Click invent NONE. Version Buttondown as pasted. Workspace Harbor Quay newsletter desk. SpecNames Dock Weekly issue map as pasted; River Digest issue map as pasted. Subscriber percents UNKNOWN. IssueCues Dock Weekly as pasted; River Digest as pasted. LaunchExtra UNKNOWN. SectionCues Product Note as pasted; Ops Note as pasted. Sponsor UNKNOWN. AudienceNotes builders as pasted. Open VALUES NOT IN INPUTS. Lang English. Banner: not a Buttondown brand-kit generator; not a growth guarantee. Forbidden: invented open rates, click totals, subscriber percents, billing secrets, guaranteed opens, open invent, click invent, subscriber invent.

3. Spec name set. Dock Weekly issue map as pasted; River Digest issue map as pasted as SpecNames. Unnamed rows NOT IN INPUTS. Never invent subscriber-percent VALUES.

4. Version lock. Buttondown as pasted as pasted. Refuse unreleased AI issue pack.

5. Refuse list. inventing open rates; inventing click totals; inventing subscriber percents; inventing billing secrets.

6. Compliance. Quoted Banned: guaranteed opens, open invent, click invent, subscriber invent. Cut. Quoted Never: invent open rates, invent click totals, invent subscriber percents, invent billing secrets. Cut. Format ledger + table + specs + version + refuse + compliance.

Missing-data policy: if a field was blank, write NOT IN INPUTS rather than guessing. Lock any tool version named in Inputs; if unnamed, write unknown. No invented testimonials, star ratings, or press logos. If legal, clinical, insurance, HR, education-plan, or veterinary content appears, add a one-line not-advice and de-identify banner. Quote banned-word hits and cut them. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you. Character and byte caps in the job are hard; print counts when relevant. Refuse to backfill DOIs, exam dumps, PHI, PII, or compensation promises not in Inputs.