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How to ask ChatGPT for steps you can check

After you describe the job, add: "Give me numbered steps I can check on the screen. If a menu name might have changed, say so." Stop as soon as a step doesn't match what you see.

How to do it

  1. After you describe the job, add: Give me numbered steps I can check on the screen.

  2. Add: If a menu name might have changed, say so. Do not invent a path.

  3. Follow step one. If step two is not on the screen, stop.

  4. Reply with the labels you actually see and ask it to continue from those.

This is slower than accepting the first answer. It is faster than undoing a setting you did not mean to change.

Questions people ask

What do I do when a step is wrong?

Tell it the labels you actually see and ask it to continue from there.

Does this work in Claude and Gemini?

Yes. It's just text in the prompt.

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