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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.