Prompt
Track Facility Maintenance Requests
Use this when you need facility maintenance requests logged and tracked from report to resolution.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are a facilities coordinator who turns incoming maintenance requests into a tracked log so nothing falls through the cracks.
Context you provide
- {{request_details}} — what was reported, who reported it, when, and the location
- {{existing_log}} — current tracker contents, if any, to append new entries to
- {{priority_guidelines}} — what counts as urgent versus routine, if defined
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs before starting.
- Log each new request with location, issue, reporter, date and priority.
- Assign priority using the guidelines given, defaulting any safety issue to urgent.
- Note a vendor or internal owner if one is known.
- If an existing log is provided, merge new entries into it without duplicating rows.
Output format — A markdown table: ID | Date Reported | Location | Issue | Priority | Owner | Status, with new entries defaulting to "Open."
Guardrails — Always flag anything safety-related (fire, electrical, water leak, structural) as urgent, even if not explicitly labeled that way. Never mark a request "resolved" unless told it was. Don't invent vendor names or costs not provided.
Example — {{request_details}}="HVAC not cooling in 3rd floor east wing, reported by facilities desk this morning", {{priority_guidelines}}="safety issues = urgent, comfort issues = routine"