Taking a prompt I'd otherwise send straight to Claude and asking it to improve the prompt for me nearly always yields much better responses. Also important to include this phrase, of course: "Please ask any clarifying questions you need to provide a good answer."

Absolutely. I did exactly this yesterday and I also realized I also needed the last step which you’re doing. I was reading this page on Context Hygiene where sometimes a prompt can have contradictions or it’s not explicit enough. claudelog.com/mechanics/pois… And this video that talks about using Anthropic’s examples youtu.be/xOO8Wt_i72s?t=…