Guide

Claude prompting best practices

Anthropic · platform.claude.com

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

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It answers 4 questions

  1. What are the 5 prompting techniques worth learning (and the ones that are outdated)?
  2. Which tool helps me write better AI prompts?
  3. How do I write research prompts that get consistently better answers?
  4. How do I use Claude well for work?

Read with it

  1. Anthropic's starting page for prompting, ordered from the most to the least effective techniques. platform.claude.com Guide Prompt engineering overview (Claude docs) Anthropic
  2. OpenAI's guide to prompting the GPT-6 family: give domain context, constraints and success criteria rather than every step, and... developers.openai.com Guide Using GPT-6 OpenAI
  3. OpenAI's learning hub: the AI Foundations course (about 70 minutes, self-paced, with a completion certificate), Applied AI... openai.com Course OpenAI Academy OpenAI
  4. How a Claude Project holds the files and standing instructions for one piece of work, so every chat in it starts with that... support.claude.com Guide What are projects? Anthropic Help Center
  5. Nine hands-on chapters with exercises; the fastest structured way to level up. github.com Course Anthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial Anthropic
  6. The free reference 3M+ people learned from, covering zero-shot to ReAct with examples. promptingguide.ai Guide Prompt Engineering Guide (promptingguide.ai) DAIR.AI
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