Overview

What is Claude?

Claude is a LLM developed by Anthropic, designed to understand and generate human-like text. It excels in tasks such as natural language understanding, text generation, summarization, and more.

There are several versions of Claude, each improving upon the last in terms of capabilities and performance. The latest version, Claude 4, offers enhanced reasoning abilities, better context understanding, and improved safety features.

Key features

Natural, conversational tone
Strong contextual memory (especially in longer chats)
Safety-focused responses with reduced risk of harmful output
Large context windows in newer versions (up to 200k+ tokens in Claude 3)
Multilingual support for various languages

Strengths

Works well with role-based prompts
Handles long documents and multi-step reasoning
Maintains coherent tone over extended conversations
Good for summarization, rewriting, and Q&A on large texts

Limitations

May produce overly cautious or verbose answers in sensitive topics
Limited access to real-time data (unless connected to a tool or API)
Output style can be less concise compared to some other LLMs

Best use cases

Long-form summarization
Complex question answering
Safe customer support chatbots
Collaborative writing and editing

Prompting tips for Claude

Use explicit role instructions:

“You are an expert technical writer…”
When working with long documents, break them into chunks and use references.
For concise answers, set word or sentence limits.
Test and adjust prompts — Claude often responds better to context-rich instructions.

Model compatibility in this documentation

All prompts marked as Claude-compatible in this collection have been tested with Claude 2 or 3.
Some prompts may require minor adaptation for optimal results.