Prompts.

Short prompts leave Claude guessing. Each of these says the goal, the limits and how to check the result. Copy one, fill in the [brackets], and paste it into Claude.

Before anything changes

• Look around first
• Ask me questions first
• Make it undoable
• A rules file for you

Doing the work

• One thing at a time
• Get it live on my domain
• A form that actually sends
• Keys and passwords

When it goes wrong

• Still broken: the useful way
• Undo what you just did
• Where are we?

Before you tell anyone

• Check it before launch
• Is this safe to let an AI use?

When to call someone

• Is this still a small job?