L'Éliminateur de Jargon : Transformez une Documentation Technique Dense en Quelque Chose d'Utilisable par un Non-Ingénieur
Pourquoi ce prompt est important
Sales reps who can't accurately explain technical safeguards either underclaim value and lose the deal to a competitor with a slicker pitch, or overclaim capabilities the system doesn't actually have — creating a support and legal liability once the client discovers the gap after signing. Teams without a fast way to translate documentation end up pulling an engineer into every sales call, or losing deals to less-technical, better-explained competitors.
À quoi nous l'utilisons
A backend engineer just shipped documentation for a new authentication API covering JWT rotation and idempotent retries. The sales team needs to explain these safeguards to a healthcare client asking pointed questions about session security and duplicate-charge protection during a live demo call in two hours — and they can't parse terms like “idempotent” or “token rotation” fast enough to answer confidently.
Prompt
Role: Act as a technical communication specialist who translates engineering documentation for non-technical stakeholders without losing accuracy or introducing false confidence. Context: - Source documentation: [PASTE TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION HERE] - Original audience this was written for: [E.G., "backend engineers integrating with our API"] - Target audience who now needs to understand it: [E.G., "the sales team and a non-technical product manager"] - What the target audience needs to DO with this understanding: [E.G., "explain the feature's security guarantees to a healthcare client on a live call, without overpromising"] Task: 1. Identify every term, acronym, or concept in the documentation that would likely be unfamiliar to [TARGET AUDIENCE]. 2. For each one, write a one-line plain-English definition, using an analogy from the target audience's own domain where possible. 3. Rewrite the full documentation in plain English, preserving every accuracy-critical detail. Do not oversimplify to the point of being factually wrong. 4. Separately flag any place where a technical nuance is important enough that glossing over it could cause [TARGET AUDIENCE] to make a costly mistake (overpromise a capability, misstate a limit, or reassure a customer incorrectly). Constraints: - Do not delete information just because it's hard to explain — find a way to explain it instead. - Do not add marketing language, hype, or claims that are not present in the original documentation. - Keep the plain-English rewrite roughly the same length as the original, or shorter. - Preserve exact numbers, limits, versions, and thresholds precisely as given — do not round or approximate them. Output Format: 1. **Glossary** — term → one-line plain-English definition, one per line. 2. **Plain-English Rewrite** — the full rewritten documentation. 3. **Where to Be Careful** — a bullet list of the accuracy-critical nuances identified in Task step 4, phrased as "don't say X, say Y" where useful.
Résultat
Glossary
- JWT (JSON Web Token): A digital ID badge your app carries around to prove it's allowed to make requests, without logging in again every time.
- Token rotation: The system automatically swaps old ID badges for new ones on a schedule, so a stolen badge only works for a limited window.
- Idempotent retry: If a request accidentally gets sent twice (like during a network hiccup), the system recognizes the duplicate and processes it only once.
- Refresh token: A longer-lived backup badge used only to request a new short-lived ID badge, never to make actual requests directly.
Plain-English Rewrite
Our authentication system issues each connected app a temporary access badge (JWT) that expires every 15 minutes. Instead of forcing a full re-login every 15 minutes, apps use a separate, longer-lived refresh badge to quietly request a new access badge in the background — customers never notice the swap happening.
If a customer's action, like submitting a payment, gets sent to our servers twice because of a shaky internet connection, our system recognizes it's the same request and only processes it once. This means customers can safely retry an action that seems to have failed without worrying about being double-charged or creating a duplicate order.
Where to Be Careful
- Don't say retries are “instant” — there's a brief window, usually under two seconds, where a retry landing in that exact window could still create a duplicate. Say “extremely reliable,” not “guaranteed.”
- The 15-minute token expiry is fixed and cannot be extended per customer request. If a prospect asks for longer sessions, the answer is no — not “we can configure that.”
- Refresh tokens can be revoked instantly (for example, if a device is reported stolen), but the currently active access token will still work for up to 15 minutes after revocation. Don't promise instant logout across every device.
La documentation technique et les personnes qui doivent agir en fonction de celle-ci sont généralement deux publics différents, et la plupart des tentatives de traduction échouent de l'une de deux façons prévisibles : soit elles simplifient trop jusqu'à ce que l'explication soit techniquement fausse, soit elles préservent chaque nuance et finissent tout aussi denses que l'original. Ce prompt est conçu pour éviter ces deux modes d'échec.
Pourquoi la structure compte
La section Glossaire existe parce que les termes inconnus sont la première chose qui fait abandonner un lecteur. La réécriture en langage simple est délibérément plafonnée à peu près à la longueur originale : les modèles d'IA sans contrainte ont tendance à remplir les explications avec du remplissage rassurant.
La troisième section, Où Être Prudent, est celle que la plupart des tentatives de simplification du jargon sautent entièrement, et c'est sans doute la plus importante. Simplifier une explication technique signifie presque toujours perdre une nuance.
Pourquoi les champs de contexte entre crochets comptent
Le prompt demande le public cible et ce qu'il doit FAIRE avec l'information, pas seulement qui il est.
Où ce prompt fait ses preuves
Ceci est le plus utile pour la documentation API, les rapports de sécurité et de conformité, les manuels d'infrastructure, et toute spécification technique interne qu'une équipe non technique doit utiliser sans attendre une explication en direct d'un ingénieur.