Model Guide

Claude

Anthropic's Claude - best practices and techniques

Overview

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant known for its thoughtful, nuanced responses and strong ethical guidelines. It excels at long-form analysis, writing, and complex reasoning. Claude 3 (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) offers various capability/performance trade-offs.

Claude is particularly known for being willing to push back on harmful requests while still being helpful. It has large context windows (up to 200K tokens).

Strengths

Long Context

Excellent at processing and referencing long documents

Nuanced Analysis

Strong at considering multiple perspectives and edge cases

Writing Quality

Produces polished, well-structured prose

Coding

Strong code generation with good error handling

Claude-Specific Tips

  • 01
    Be explicit about format

    Claude responds well to structured output requests

  • 02
    Use "think step by step"

    For complex reasoning, explicitly request chain-of-thought

  • 03
    Provide constraints

    Clear boundaries help Claude stay focused and appropriate

  • 04
    Leverage large context

    Paste relevant documents directly - Claude can analyze them thoroughly

Example Prompt

Effective Claude Prompt
Analyze the following research paper and provide: 1. A 3-sentence summary 2. Key findings (bullet points) 3. Methodology assessment 4. Potential limitations Think step by step through your analysis. [Paper text pasted here - up to 50 pages] Format your response using markdown headers.

This works well because it provides a clear analytical framework, explicitly requests step-by-step reasoning, and specifies the output format. Claude's large context window makes it ideal for analyzing long documents.

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