When you include multiple documents or excerpts, label each one before it appears. Tell Claude what each source is, how
When you include multiple documents or excerpts, label each one before it appears. Tell Claude what each source is, how authoritative it is, and how to treat it relative to the others.
You now know what goes in a prompt (Chapter 1) and how to curate the information Claude needs to do the task (this chapt
You now know what goes in a prompt (Chapter 1) and how to curate the information Claude needs to do the task (this chapter). The next chapter turns to the component that is easiest to forget and most expensive to omit: constraints. What should Claude not do? What should it refuse to invent? Where should it stop?
You now know what goes in a prompt (Chapter 1) and how to curate the information Claude needs to do the task (this chapter). The next chapter turns to the component that is easiest to forget and most expensive to omit: constraints. What should Claude not do? What should it refuse to invent? Where should it stop?
Claude Prompt Engineering · Ch.2 · Chapter 2: Context: What Claude Needs and What It Does Not
That is the framework. Claude Prompt Engineering, chapter 2: Chapter 2: Context: What Claude Needs and What It Does Not. The patterns are now in place. Apply them.