CCDV-F: Claude Certified Developer — Foundations

By Anthropic · Question Mode

QuestionQ94

VerifiedPrompt and Context Engineering

A teammate is debugging a Claude application with a system prompt that has grown to several hundred lines and now includes overlapping, contradictory, and obsolete instructions.

How would you advise your teammate?

Explanation

Auditing and refactoring the system prompt removes outdated and redundant instructions while resolving conflicts. Clear, current, noncontradictory instructions make the intended behavior easier for Claude to follow. Anthropic recommends clear, explicit prompting. (platform.claude.com)

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