No prompt engineering course needed. These are plain words. Drop one in front of your question and Claude answers from a completely different angle.
Find what to stop doing
Ask which twenty percent of what you are doing is actually driving results. It tells you what to cut.
Strip the AI fingerprint
Put this in front of your prompt and you get a humanized version, no AI slop, no giveaway phrasing.
Build it instead of describe it
Say the word and Claude stops explaining the thing and starts building it. A working dashboard, a pricing calculator, a small app, live in the chat while you watch.
Find the real question
Names the real question sitting underneath the one you asked. Uncomfortable. Also the fastest way to find out what you are actually stuck on.
Get the honest answer
Claude stops being the yes man and gives you the answer you needed, not the one that feels good.
Decide faster
Runs a military decision framework over your problem. Observe, orient, decide, act.
Go to expert depth
Tells Claude to answer at the highest expert level it can reach. Same question you were already asking, completely different depth coming back.
How to use these
- Open a new or existing Claude chat.
- Type the code word first, in your own message.
- Follow it directly with your real question.
- Read the response. If it is not sharp enough, add the code again and ask it to go further.
These codes are plain language instructions, not hidden settings. They work in any Claude conversation, on any plan.
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