04 Say which files it should read

What people usually ask

Draft the methods section for the report.

What comes back

In a project folder of twenty files, a methods section stitched from two superseded procedure versions and a file from a different job.

Ask this instead

Draft the methods section for the <project> report.
Read only these two files: procedure_v3.docx and
results_2026-09.csv. Treat every other file in the folder
as absent, including procedure_v1 and procedure_v2.
At the top of your answer, list the files you read.
Where something the section needs is not in those two files,
ask me instead of filling it in. Write in past tense, in the
order the work was done, under 400 words.

Attach: the two named files, or the folder with the two names given in the prompt.

Why it works: naming the files to read and declaring the rest absent stops the model from stitching old versions into a current report.