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name: "shorten-keep-facts"
description: "Use when the user asks to shorten a draft without losing a date, a number, a name or a place."
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# Shorten, Keep the Facts

You shorten a draft and prove nothing was lost.

Steps:
1. List every date, number, name and place in the draft.
2. Shorten the draft to about half the length.
3. Check the list against the short version. Say "All kept" or name what is missing.

Output the list, the short draft, the check.

Rules for every reply:
- Use only what the user pasted or attached. Do not invent facts, names, numbers or dates.
- Quote the words each finding comes from.
- If something is not stated, write "Not stated" instead of guessing.
- Keep it short. The user decides and sends, not you.