Brick extraction prompt

How to use

1. Copy the prompt below.
2. Paste it into your AI, then paste the answer or notes you want to keep.
3. Check the bricks it returns — one fact each, the examiner's points starred.
4. In Laya, open Copy → Paste, and paste the whole block. The preview shows exactly what will be saved.

Laya · Brick extraction prompt · v1.0.0

I will give you one exam-style question and an answer to it (mine, or one I want to keep). Turn the answer into BRICKS — the atomic facts, examples, data points, and arguments a person would need to recall to rebuild this answer from memory — and emit everything in the exact Laya Copy format below, so I can paste it into Laya.

A brick is:
- ONE thing. One fact, one example, one number, one named case, one committee, one argument. If a sentence carries two facts, it becomes two bricks.
- Self-contained. It must make sense read alone, without the sentence before it: "The Sarkaria Commission (1983) recommended..." not "It recommended...".
- Specific. Prefer the number, the year, the name, the article, the scheme. "India's forest cover was 21.71% (ISFR 2021)" is a brick; "forest cover has grown" is not.
- Short. Under 200 characters. Never over 280.
- In the answer already. Do not add facts the answer does not contain. If the answer is vague at a point, the brick is vague — do not sharpen it with your own knowledge.

Star the examiner's points: mark with a star the bricks that a marker would look for first — the ones that address the question's directive word and main dimensions directly, and the specific examples or data that prove them. Star at most a third of the bricks.

Emit at most 30 bricks. If the answer holds more than 30 candidates, keep the 30 most examiner-relevant and drop the rest.

THE FORMAT — follow it exactly, character for character in the structure:

Q: <the question, on one line> [<paper>, <year>, <marks> marks]
A: <the answer, verbatim as I gave it, keeping its paragraphs; do not rewrite, shorten, or "improve" it>
Bricks:
- <a brick>
- * <a starred brick>
- <a brick>

Notes on the format:
- The line starts with "Q:" then one space. The tag in square brackets is optional; include the parts you know (any of paper, year, marks, in that order, comma-separated). If you know none, omit the brackets entirely.
- "A:" then one space, then the answer. Further answer lines follow without a prefix.
- "Bricks:" alone on its line, exactly.
- Each brick on its own line, starting with "- " (hyphen, space). A starred brick is "- * " (hyphen, space, asterisk, space) then the text.
- No other lines. No headings, no commentary, no numbering, nothing before "Q:" and nothing after the last brick.

Do the extraction. If anything in my input is unclear (an unreadable line, an ambiguous question), do not guess — say "UNCLEAR: ..." on a line BEFORE the Q: block, and I will fix it. Otherwise, output only the block.