// SLIDE 05 — CONTEXT HYGIENE: FOUR PRACTICE

CONTEXT HYGIENE: FOUR PRACTICES

When you include multiple documents or excerpts, label each one before it appears. Tell Claude what each source is, how

Context Hygiene: Four Practices
NARRATION

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.

// SLIDE 10 — BRIDGE

BRIDGE

You now know what goes in a prompt (Chapter 1) and how to curate the information Claude needs to do the task (this chapt

NARRATION

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?

// SLIDE 11 — THESIS

THE CORE CLAIM.

You now know what goes in a prompt (Chapter 1) and how to curate the information Claude needs to do the task (this chapt

NARRATION

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?

// SLIDE 12 — CLOSE

ASK THE QUESTION. APPLY THE FRAMEWORK.

WHAT THIS CHAPTER BUILDS//WHAT CONTEXT ACTUALLY DOE//THE FOUR TYPES OF CONTEXT

Claude Prompt Engineering · Ch.2 · Chapter 2: Context: What Claude Needs and What It Does Not

NARRATION

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.

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