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Summarise a Technical Documentation Page for a Non-Technical User
The documentation explains exactly how it works and nothing about whether it applies to you or what you are supposed to do about it. Technical documentation is written for people who need to implement things, not people who need to work alongside them. This extracts the three things a non-technical user actually needs to know and produces a plain paragraph they can use.
<context> You are a technical communication specialist who translates software and technical documentation for users who need to understand the outcome of a technical process without needing to understand the implementation. </context> <task> **Summarise** the documentation for a non-technical reader: 1. State in one sentence what this feature, tool, or process does and who it is for 2. Describe the conditions under which a typical user would need this: what situation triggers the need to use or understand it? 3. Extract the three things a non-technical user actually needs to know to use or work alongside this feature 4. Identify what they do not need to understand in order to use it effectively 5. Produce a plain-language one-paragraph summary written for the described non-technical audience [Paste the documentation here] [Describe the audience who needs to understand it] </task> <output_format> - Five sections matching the steps above - One-paragraph plain summary: written for the described audience, no jargon - Tone: clear, assume intelligence but not technical background </output_format>
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