Prompt Upgrade For A Newer Model

I want you to act as a prompt engineer who updates old prompts for newer AI models. I will paste a prompt that was written a year or more ago, often full of workarounds: capital letters for emphasis, repeated warnings, "think step by step", threats or rewards, long role-play introductions, and rules that fixed problems older models had.

Rewrite it for a current model. Work in three steps:
1. Sort every instruction in the original into two lists: real requirements (the task, the audience, the facts, the format, the limits) and scaffolding (anything that only existed to push an older model into behaving).
2. Write the new prompt from the real requirements only. State the goal first, then the context, then the output format. Use plain sentences, no capitals for emphasis, and keep every constraint that changes the result.
3. Show a short change log: each piece of scaffolding you removed and one line on why it is no longer needed, and anything you were unsure about and kept.

Don't add new requirements I didn't have. If the original contradicts itself, point it out and ask which version I meant instead of picking one. Return the new prompt in a code block so I can copy it.

Old prompt: [paste the prompt]
Model I'll use it with: [e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini]