Guide

Claude prompting best practices

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Updated best practices that transfer well to every frontier model, not just Claude.

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The question it answers

  1. How do I write research prompts that get consistently better answers?

Read with it

  1. The canonical vendor guide: clarity, examples, structure and chain-of-thought, straight from the lab. docs.anthropic.com Guide Prompt engineering overview Anthropic
  2. Nine hands-on chapters with exercises; the fastest structured way to level up. github.com Course Anthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial Anthropic
  3. The free reference 3M+ people learned from, covering zero-shot to ReAct with examples. promptingguide.ai Guide Prompt Engineering Guide (promptingguide.ai) DAIR.AI
  4. The underlying repo with papers, notebooks and lessons for going deeper. github.com Tool dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide (GitHub) DAIR.AI
  5. A self-paced course version if you prefer structure over docs. academy.dair.ai Course Introduction to Prompt Engineering (DAIR Academy) DAIR.AI
  6. Google's persona-task-context-format formula with role-specific examples; effective prompts average 21 words. services.google.com Guide Gemini for Google Workspace Prompting Guide (handbook) Google
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