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.

Most of these come from Robin's own prompts, the ones that worked best out of more than 7,000, kept close to his words.

Getting started

• Look around firstreview · safety
• Ask me questions firstplanning
• A rules file for youagents · safety
• Make it undoablesafety · backups
• Check it before you install itsecurity · setup
• A handover note for next timeplanning · agents

Your website

• Get it live on my domaindeploy · launch
• A form that actually sendsforms · launch
• Check it before launchlaunch · review
• Check it on a phonelaunch · design
• Can AI assistants read my site?launch · agents
• Quick wins, realisticallyreview · launch

When it goes wrong

• Still broken: the useful waydebugging
• Undo what you just diddebugging · safety
• One thing at a timedebugging
• Where are we?planning
• We've gone backwardsdebugging · structure
• Walk the whole journeytesting · debugging

Safety and access

• Keys and passwordssecurity
• Is this safe to let an AI use?security · agents
• Put a fuse on itagents · safety
• A practice mode that never sendssafety · testing
• Back up before you updatesafety · backups

Money and quotes

• Cross-check a quotemoney · review
• A cost range, both endsmoney · planning
• What will this cost to run?money · planning
• A money question, carefullymoney · research
• The client-friendly versionmoney · writing · customers

Spreadsheets and data

• Import without losing anythingdata · safety
• Work on a copydata · safety
• Catch the duplicatesdata · review
• A web page into a spreadsheetdata · research
• Realistic example datadata · testing

Email and customers

• A friendly nudgeemail · customers
• Send me every email firstemail · testing
• Find the right personcustomers · research
• Learn from my editsemail · writing

Writing and marketing

• A post in my own wordswriting · marketing
• Test the idea before you commitmarketing · writing
• A tagline, from people who knowmarketing · research
• Docs a person will readwriting · docs
• A case study from the paper trailwriting · backups

Research

• Twenty examples, properly analysedresearch · design
• Research with receiptsresearch · writing
• Is this a fair comparison?research · review
• It looks too AI-madedesign · research

Thinking it through

• Full critical modethinking · review
• What happens if…thinking · data
• Grounded in researchthinking · research
• Don't grade itthinking · review
• Honest feedback, inlinethinking · writing
• What's the principle here?thinking · structure
• Simplify firstthinking · debugging
• Honest critical opinionthinking · review
• What haven't I asked?thinking · planning

Planning and checking

• Start a clean briefplanning · docs
• Sort through old notesplanning · docs
• Reorder the todo listplanning
• Run through the listreview · planning
• Did we do everything?review · planning
• A second opinion on a reviewreview
• Check the docs against realityreview · docs
• Full review, report onlyreview · security
• Is this still a small job?planning

Building it properly

• Checks that prove somethingtesting
• Audit the checkstesting · review
• Prove the problem, then fix ittesting · debugging
• Rules, not special casesstructure
• Start fresh, without the old versionplanning · structure