What problem does it solve?
This skill provides a structured approach to prompt creation for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5, ensuring prompts are explicit, repeatable, and aligned with model capabilities. It helps avoid brevity biases and context-collapse by guiding users to craft prompts that clearly state goals, constraints, and evaluation criteria.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Proactive Prompting: Guidelines for crafting system prompts, task prompts, and templates to maximize reliability.
- Why-first Reasoning: Emphasizes including rationale and motivation to improve generalization.
- Action vs Suggestion: Clear instructions for when to implement changes versus only suggesting them.
- Use Case: Designing prompts for multi-step reasoning, tool use, and agent instructions in production workflows.
Quick Start
Use prompting to craft a clear, explicit instruction for Claude Sonnet 4.5 that asks for thoroughness, explicit constraints, and concrete examples.