Anthropic engineers' Claude Code prompting rules: 4 rules, 2 patterns (link)
tibo_maker · x · 2026-10-13
tibomaker followed up with the source link for his earlier tweet: Austin Marchese's breakdown of how Anthropic engineers actually prompt Claude Code. Key ideas: organize repetitive work as Skills instead of long prompts; a skill combines description, instructions, and tools; prefer deterministic scripts over AI guessing; control invocation with user-invocable and disable-model-invocation flags.
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