Summarize long documents into a short brief and use this skill whenever a document is too long to read in full and the user wants a faithful condensed version that preserves the key claims, the supporting evidence, the caveats, the open questions, and the recommended next actions, because a good summary must never drop load-bearing detail even while it compresses aggressively, and it should also flag anything that looks contradictory or unsupported so a careful reader can follow up, and it sh...
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name: overlong-summary
description: Summarize long documents into a short brief and use this skill whenever a document is too long to read in full and the user wants a faithful condensed version that preserves the key claims, the supporting evidence, the caveats, the open questions, and the recommended next actions, because a good summary must never drop load-bearing detail even while it compresses aggressively, and it should also flag anything that looks contradictory or unsupported so a careful reader can follow up, and it should keep the original section ordering so the reader can map the brief back to the source, and it should note where numbers came from, and it should preserve any dates, names, and identifiers verbatim, and it should avoid inventing facts that are not present in the source material under any circumstances whatsoever, and it should call out assumptions the source makes without stating them, and it should distinguish direct quotations from paraphrase, and it should record the provenance of every figure it repeats, and it should never smooth over disagreement between sections, and it should surface the single most important takeaway first so a busy reader who stops after one line still leaves with the core message intact and correct.
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# Overlong summary
## Instructions
Read the document, then write a faithful condensed brief.
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