5 New Prompts & Today's Actionable News
By Robert MacKelfresh — August 14, 2026Find out what your AI can already reach
EASYBefore you answer, take stock of yourself. List everything you can currently do on my behalf. Break it into: 1. WHAT YOU CAN READ —…Open full prompt →for ChatGPT, Claude or GeminiTurn a rambling voice note into actions
EASYI'm going to give you a voice note. It's me thinking out loud, so it will double back on itself, trail off, and change its mind partway…Open full prompt →for ChatGPT or Claude (voice or audio upload)Make AI argue against your own plan
MEDIUMI've decided to do this: [YOUR PLAN, IN TWO OR THREE SENTENCES] Your job is not to help me do it. Your job is to try to talk me…Open full prompt →for Claude or ChatGPTGet real questions from a spreadsheet
ADVANCEDI'm attaching a spreadsheet. Analyse it properly — actually compute, don't eyeball it. Do not give me a summary of what the columns…Open full prompt →for ChatGPT or Claude (file upload with data analysis)Have one AI audit another's answer
EXPERTYou are the auditor. You have no loyalty to it and no obligation to be polite about it. Go through it and mark up: 1. CLAIMS OF FACT —…Open full prompt →for Any two of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
The Context Coda
One more thing: use anything you already know about me from our past chats and anything you're connected to. If you can find it yourself, don't make me look it up.
Paste this at the end of any prompt above. It tells your AI to use what it already knows about you instead of asking you to repeat it — which is the difference between a generic answer and a personal one.
Actionable News
What just happened, and the prompt, skill file, or setup that turns it into something you can use.
ChatGPT can now edit your Google Drive files directly, not a copy of them
here's the four-step setup and the test to run on a duplicate first, because Drive version history is now your only undo
SETTINGS REVIEWClaude Code turns auto mode on by default today for Pro, Max and Team
here's the ten-minute settings review, and the finding behind the change — people approve 97% of the prompts they're shown
Grok 4.6 is in GitHub Copilot, but the policy is off by default on Business and Enterprise
→here's the admin checklist, so you stop waiting for a rollout that needs somebody to flip a switch
GET THE ADMIN CHECKLISTn8n 2.34.6 moves the Google Ads node off Google's sunset v21 API to v25
→here's the upgrade checklist and why a green node returning nothing is the failure you won't notice
GET THE UPGRADE CHECKLISTHugging Face finds models under 1B parameters take 83% of all downloads, against 1% for models over 100B
→here's the full data table and the fifty-input test for the job you're probably over-modelling
GET THE DATA TABLE
The AI Five is published by Automation Squad. Every prompt is written from scratch and every claim links to a primary source. Corrections: [email protected].