Lesson · 14 min
Description
The brief is the job. Grok cannot read your mind, only your tokens.
Description is the craft of saying the work out loud: outcome, audience, inputs, constraints, and what to do with uncertainty. It is the same skill as writing a good ticket, and it is the highest-leverage thing most people can learn.
Common failure: describing the feeling ('make it pop', 'be professional') instead of the artifact. Grok will happily emit tone. Tone is not a spec.
Produce [artifact] for [audience] using [inputs]. Constraints: [length, format, tone, must / must not]. If something needed is missing, [ask / mark / stop] rather than invent.
Examples beat adjectives. One paragraph of 'like this' is worth a page of style notes. Paste the sample.