Anthropic lead engineer's 4-question prompt makes agents more ambitious, now a free skill
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-10-16
Anthropic lead engineer Felix Rieseberg shared a prompt framework for making agents more ambitious, which DannyMac8 turned into a free skill called /be-ambitious. Before rewriting your prompt, the agent answers four questions:
- What would a top professional in this field do that you aren't asking for?
- What is the rawest material they would start from, instead of something pre-digested?
- Which specific methods and tools would they use?
- What, other than you or the model, would prove the result is right?
It then rewrites your prompt to ask for exactly that and stops for review.
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