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Claude: System Prompts

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SummaryClaude's system prompts are trending—a direct how-to for optimizing a primary AI tool that working people use daily.
103 → 759 points · peak 759 · 38 observations
Posted on X · 2026-08-17Claude's docs just published their system prompt guide. The useful bit: they show you exactly how the model weights instructions (task > examples > tone), so you can stop guessing which part of your prompt it's actually following.