Understanding Claude's personalization features (original) (raw)

Claude offers several ways to personalize your experience: profile instructions, project instructions, and styles. Each serves a different purpose in helping Claude better understand and meet your needs.

Instructions for Claude

Instructions are account-wide settings that help Claude understand your general instructions that Claude should consider in responses.

To set your instructions:

Any instructions you add here will be applied to all of your conversations with Claude.

Project instructions

Project instructions help Claude understand the specific context and requirements for a particular project. These instructions only apply to chats within that project.

Use project instructions when you want to:

Project instructions are particularly useful when you're working on focused tasks or need Claude to maintain consistent context across multiple conversations within the same project.

Skills

Skills add specific behaviors or capabilities to your conversations with Claude. They can customize how Claude communicates, apply specialized expertise, or define repeatable behaviors you activate on demand.

Use skills when you want to:

Choosing the right feature

You can use these features independently or in combination to create the most effective experience for your needs.

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