"Restate my goal": the one-line Claude Code prompt that catches misunderstandings early
coolprobn · reddit · 2026-10-20
A Reddit user shares the single most useful prompt in their Claude Code workflow: asking the model to restate the goal in its own words. Picked up from poteto (author of pstack), it's used mostly during planning — if the agent misunderstood the intent, you catch it before it writes a pile of code. The author is curating a collection of such one-line power prompts for coding agents and is soliciting more.
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