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Pending text amendments that could reclassify what you hold

Lesson 6 of 6 · Buy the classification

1 · Learn the move · Agents + multi-step

Most classification risk arrives as text, not as a map. A planning commission takes up an amendment to the use table, a new minimum parcel area, a definition rewritten so that 'agriculture' no longer covers the event barn. Nothing is rezoned, and a use you bought for is gone or conditioned. A holder with several parcels cannot read every draft line by line, but can hand a model a chained job with a hard stop at each link: diff the draft against the current text, run the diff against each parcel you hold, and report where the amendment stands only as the clerk's record prints it. Chaining is the right technique because each step can fail quietly, and a chain that shows its output at every link lets you see which one did. The model never predicts adoption, never states an effective date it was not given, and never concludes that a use would be grandfathered. Whether an existing use continues is counsel's call.

Run these steps in order and show each output before the next: (1) quote each change in the draft against the current text; (2) for each parcel I hold, list which change touches its district or intended use; (3) state the amendment's status only as the agenda prints it; (4) list questions for the planner and counsel. Never predict adoption or say a use is grandfathered. [draft amendment] [current sections] [agenda page] [my parcel register]

2 · Your turn. You write the prompt

The Dunmere County planning commission agenda carries a draft amendment to the agricultural districts. You hold five parcels in the county: three zoned agricultural, one of them enrolled in current use and one bought for an event barn, plus two in other districts. You have the draft, some of the current sections it changes, the agenda page and your parcel register. Write the multi-step prompt that tells you what the draft would touch without guessing how it ends.

Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.

Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.

Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.