The instruction you give an AI for one assignment.
A prompt applies to that one assignment only. Whatever should apply every time belongs in a place that Claude reads for every assignment in the project, and in Claude that is the project instructions. Otherwise you give the same rule again every week, and on the Friday when you forget the sentence, it is missing from the assignment.
Example from Module 8
A prompt applies to one assignment. Whatever should apply every time is in the project instructions.
Module 8: “Storing knowledge for good”. In the Werkbank course room, with sign-in.
Related terms
- Project instructionsThe part of a Claude project that tells Claude how to work and that applies in every chat of the project.
- Rules fileA document with the permanent rules of a recurring task, in which every rule appears exactly once and hard rules are kept apart from guidance.
- AgentAn AI that carries out a task in several steps on its own, with fixed instructions and the access you give it.