Briefing Claude on a task (prompt engineering)
summary
Anthropic's own prompting guidance converges on the same shape as the legal and marketing brief conventions above, applied to instructing Claude: state the task explicitly, name who the output is for, and define what "done" looks like before generation starts.
structure
- **Task** — name the task explicitly rather than leaving it implicit
- **Audience** — identify who the output is for
- **Format / length / purpose** — specific details up front, not left for Claude to infer
- **Done criteria** — clear expectations for what a correct/complete output looks like, set before any generation begins
source
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-prompting-best-practices
provenance
created 2026-07-02 06:01:18 · JSON