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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
Getting Good Work from Claude: Instructions for Claude, Task Briefs and Verification Habits
The way to get usable work from Claude is to put rules that hold in every conversation into Instructions for Claude, job-specific context into a project, and the task itself into a brief made of goal, context, constraints, output format and an ambiguity rule. The personalization layers, how Claude picking its own tools affects the brief, a bad and a good brief for a Bookstore campaign e-mail, and three verification questions to ask before using an answer.
Research and Web Search with Claude: Cited Research and Verification
The way to use a Claude Research report safely is to write a primary-source rule and a row-by-row checkable table into the brief, then ask for each row's basis in the source's own words. Web search without a toggle in the unified experience, Research plans and limit cost, connectors used without approval, and Bookstore's .NET 11 migration research.