alivirgo/major-ai-skills/use-good-answers-as-templates
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Use an approved response as a structural example for a new task while replacing its facts and context.
Install
npx vskill@latest install alivirgo/major-ai-skills/use-good-answers-as-templatesSKILL.md
Use Past Winning Answers as Templates (The Self-Exemplar Clone) (AI Skill)
Overview
Attempting to describe a complex formatting structure in descriptive prose ("Make it have a bold header, then a 3-column table, then two bullet points with emojis, and a code block at the bottom...") is tedious and leaves room for model hallucination.
The Self-Exemplar Clone Protocol leverages the fundamental superpower of Large Language Models: in-context pattern completion. By pasting a past response that you loved and telling the AI to "replicate this exact schema for Topic B", you achieve 100% structural fidelity on Turn 1.
Descriptive Prose vs. Self-Exemplar Cloning
Master Self-Exemplar Prompt Templates
Pattern 1: The Exact Structural Clone Directive
Use when standardizing documentation, case studies, or employee reviews:
Real-World Case Study
Scenario: Writing API Documentation for 10 Microservices
The Problem
Writing prose instructions for each API doc resulted in service A having a Markdown table, service B having a bulleted list, and service C omitting error codes entirely.
The Self-Exemplar Fix
The team took the perfectly formatted doc for the UserService and used it as an exemplar template:
{ "email": "user@example.com", "name": "Jane" }
Outcome: AI produced a clone of the PaymentService documentation with identical tables, formatting, and JSON fences in under 5 seconds.
Summary Best Practices
- Store winning outputs: Save 2 or 3 of your all-time favorite AI responses into an
exemplars.mdfile for reuse. - Enclose in `<exemplar>` tags: Cleanly isolates the reference pattern from the new prompt data.
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