alivirgo/major-ai-skills/use-bolding-and-bullet-formatting
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Use bold labels and concise bullets to make requirements, decisions, and action items easier to scan.
Install
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Use Bolding and Bullet Formatting in Prompts (Visual Anchors) (AI Skill)
Overview
When multiple instructions are buried in a continuous paragraph of text ("Please summarize this article and make sure it has 3 bullets and also use a friendly tone and don't mention pricing and keep it under 100 words"), the model's self-attention mechanism frequently overlooks one or more constraints.
The Visual Anchor Protocol structures complex multi-constraint prompts using Markdown Bullet Hierarchies and Bold Key-Value Anchors (- **[PARAMETER]**: [VALUE]), creating high-contrast token clusters that guarantee 100% constraint adherence.
Paragraph Clutter vs. Bold Key-Value Anchors
The Master Key-Value Anchor Formula
Always structure complex instructions using this standardized schema:
Real-World Case Study
Scenario: Generating a Multi-Constraint SQL Migration Script
Paragraph Prompt (Constraint Skipped)
"Write a Postgres migration to add a user_tier enum to our users table with values free pro enterprise and make sure it has a default of free and is not nullable and add an index on it but do it concurrently so it doesn't lock the database."❌ Model generates standard `CREATE INDEX` instead of `CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY` because the constraint was buried at the end of a run-on sentence.
Bold Key-Value Prompt (100% Precision)
AI Output:
Summary Best Practices
- Use Bold Labels for Every Bullet: Start lines with
- **Parameter**: Value. - Use Visual Emojis as Attention Magnifiers: Icons like
❌,🔒,📋,⚡create strong anchor signals in modern transformer attention maps.
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