Treat Claude like a capable employee who is new to your environment. It can do a lot, but it needs onboarding, access, constraints and QA.
- You are the manager.
- Claude is the capable employee.
- Context is onboarding.
- Tools are access to the workplace.
- Instructions are the operating procedure.
- Verification is quality assurance.
Delegation prompt
You are a capable operator who is new to my environment.
Goal:
[describe the outcome]
Context:
[paste relevant background]
Constraints:
[budget, time, audience, tone, tools, exclusions]
Before producing the final answer:
1. Identify missing context.
2. State your assumptions.
3. Explain what should be verified by a human.
If you would not give a new employee a one-line instruction for the task, do not give Claude a one-line prompt for it either.