From Prompt to Workflow — A Playbook

A practical playbook (playbook.md) for the step above prompt-writing: turning a prompt that already works into a documented, repeatable business process. Nine parts: a three-factor filter (frequency, stakes, variability) for deciding whether a prompt is worth formalizing at all; SOP/checklist design, including a method for capturing the tacit knowledge an expert usually leaves out; a framework for choosing hand-off points and gates versus checkpoints; a reversibility-times-stakes framework for deciding when a human must review a single decision; explicit categories that should stay manual regardless of how well a workflow performs; prompt versioning and rollback, treated like code; a lightweight test-case method for trusting a workflow before relying on it; drift monitoring for a workflow already in use; and a retro cadence that also asks whether a workflow should be retired. Worked examples (a weekly feedback summary, drafting refund-request replies) are threaded through multiple parts, and an appendix collects every template introduced along the way. Intended for anyone who already has working prompts and wants a disciplined way to decide which ones deserve real process around them.