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March 16, 2026

Claude works best when you give it clear and specific instructions. When crafting your prompt, keep the following principles in mind:

• Explain your ask simply and clearly.
• Make sure that your prompt contains as much context as possible. Pretend you are giving these instructions to someone with no background knowledge about what you are asking.
• Break down complex requests into substeps.
• Give Claude feedback: you provide Claude with follow-up instructions, clarifications, or ask it to rewrite an answer.

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