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Workshop · 25m · Code w/ Claude 2025

Prompting 101

Hannah Moran and Christian Ryan · on Anthropic

Anthropic's Applied AI team build a real prompt step by step, from a vague first try to one that works reliably.

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What you'll take away

  • A good prompt has five parts: the task, the background, the detailed instructions, examples, and a reminder of what matters most.
  • Split long prompts into clearly labelled sections with XML tags so Claude knows what each part is.
  • Tell Claude what order to think in, and give it room to reason before it answers.
  • Test against real examples and fix the prompt one problem at a time.

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