Claude prompting practices
Official Claude guidance covering clear instructions, examples, output formats, tool use and agentic systems.
Prompts
Who it’s for. People writing Claude prompts for a product feature, especially when format, examples, or tool use matter.
What it is
A useful starting point—not another unexplained bookmark.
Anthropic’s prompting guidance covers the patterns used to make Claude follow a task reliably, including clear context, examples and explicit output requirements. It also includes guidance relevant to tool-using and agentic systems.
Useful for
When to use it
- Designing prompts for Claude-powered features
- Improving format and instruction following
- Building prompts that use tools or long context
What you will find
Inside the resource
- Clear instruction patterns
- Examples and structured context
- Output-format guidance
- Prompting considerations for tools and agents
Quick start
How I would use it
- 01
Define success
State the task and what a correct, useful response looks like.
- 02
Organize the context
Separate instructions, source material and user input so each role is unambiguous.
- 03
Show a good example
When format or judgement matters, include a representative input and ideal output.
- 04
Evaluate, then revise
Use a set of realistic test cases instead of changing a prompt after one disappointing response.
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Next step
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