Basics
Getting started
Accounts, models, and your first useful prompt.
Knowledge cards
Best practice
Open With the Outcome You Want, Then the Details
A simple prompt structure for beginners: lead with the outcome you actually want — the finished thing and who it's for — then give constraints and context, and end with the specific ask. The goal comes first because everything else is in service of it.
Knowledge card
Start by Telling Claude Who It Is and Who You Are
A reliable first-message shape for Claude: name the role you want it to take, give the context you're working in, state the constraints, then make the ask — in that order.