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Reverse-engineer a likely prompt from an output you want to reproduce
I found an AI-generated output that has a style/structure I want to reproduce, but I don't have the original prompt. Given the output text: output_text, work backward to a plausible prompt that would produce this kind of output consistently. Requirements:
1. Identify the structural signatures in the output (heading pattern, sentence length distribution, use of examples, hedging language, specific recurring phrases) that suggest specific prompt instructions, and state the inference explicitly ('the consistent use of a rhetorical question to open each section suggests an instruction like...').
2. Distinguish features that are likely prompt-driven (deliberate, would recur reliably) from features that could just be incidental to this one generation (a phrase that happened to appear once, not necessarily instructed).
3. Draft a candidate prompt based on your inferences.
4. State your confidence level honestly: this is inherently a guess, note which parts of your reconstruction you're fairly confident about versus which are speculative, don't present the whole thing as certain.
5. Suggest the fastest way to verify: what to check by running the candidate prompt and comparing new output against the original's style.
Output text to reverse-engineer: output_text