Here is how the same task looks before and after specification. "Can you improve the methods section of my paper?"
Specification is the discipline that makes every other Claude workflow inspectable. The next chapter takes that discipli
Specification is the discipline that makes every other Claude workflow inspectable. The next chapter takes that discipline into a different environment: a codebase. Claude Code is not a chat assistant that writes code. It is an agent that operates on your files, runs commands, and requires a different kind of supervision. The specification habits from this chapter carry forward , but the verification tools change.
Claude: The Ecosystem · Ch.3 · Chapter 3 — Prompting as Specification
That is the framework. Claude: The Ecosystem, chapter 3: Chapter 3 , Prompting as Specification. The patterns are now in place. Apply them.