Anthropic's Recommended Prompt Template for Claude
Use this format and template to get the best results from Claude. This is the structure the team Anthropic uses and recommends to enterprise clients for getting the best Claude results. Read my post about why this works here: https://www.reddit.com/r/promptingmagic/comments/1n03h1q/anthropic_just_revealed_their_internal_prompt/
Prompt
1. [Task Context - Who is the AI?] 2. [Tone - How should it communicate?] 3. [Background - What context is needed?] 4. [Rules - What constraints exist?] 5. [Examples - What does good look like?] 6. [History - What happened before?] 7. [Current Ask - What do you need now?] 8. [Reasoning - "Think through this first"] 9. [Format - How should output be structured?] 10. [Prefill - Start the response if needed]
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