Claude AI Prompts: Complete Guide to Mastering Claude (Anthropic)
Claude, developed by Anthropic, is one of the most powerful and nuanced AI models available today. Known for its ability to follow complex instructions, advanced reasoning and extended context window (up to 200K tokens), Claude excels at tasks requiring precision, nuance and deep understanding. Whether you are a writer, developer, marketer or entrepreneur, Claude can transform your productivity — provided you know how to communicate with it. This comprehensive guide gives you the keys to get the best out of Claude: from basic prompts to advanced techniques like XML prompting, chain of thought and system roles.
The prompt
You are an expert assistant. I will give you a task to accomplish.
<context> [Describe the situation, project or problem in 2-3 sentences] </context> <objective> [What you expect as a result] </objective> <constraints> - Length: [short / medium / detailed] - Tone: [professional / conversational / technical] - Format: [list, table, structured paragraphs, code] </constraints> <examples> [Optional: provide an example of the expected result] </examples>Personalize this prompt with Léa
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Why it works
This prompt leverages Claude's specific strengths: XML tags that Claude natively interprets to structure its response, clear instruction separation that reduces ambiguity, and the optional examples block that enables few-shot learning.
Expected result
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FAQ
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How to use this prompt
- Copy the prompt with the button above.
- Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or your favorite AI assistant.
- Replace the bracketed variables with your details, then refine the result.
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Prompt Guide is a free library of 4800+ ready-to-use prompts for ChatGPT, Claude and other AIs, with guides to learn prompting and tools to build and optimize your own prompts.
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