Be honest about what you actually want. A vague wish is not a job. A job is one specific thing you could hand to a capable person and they would know exactly what to do.

Say it in one sentence before you type. If you can't, you don't have a job yet, you have a topic.

Claude is excellent at some things and the wrong choice for others.

The quick rule: if you can't verify the result, don't hand it over.

You are the manager here. Decide what stays with you and what goes to Claude.

Before you hand anything over, run these three. All three yes = go.

You've decided the job. Now say it well, this is where most prompts fall apart. Claude is sharp, but it knows nothing about your world unless you tell it. Treat it like a talented new hire on their first day: they can do the work, but only if you tell them what you want.

Fill these three every time:

Then hand Claude the one thing only you have: the facts.

That decision, knowing the job, has a name. Anthropic, the company that builds Claude, calls it delegation. It also puts you on the first rung of a ladder this course climbs the whole way through.

Today is rung one: one clear task, one clean result.