Anthropic releases method to 10× Claude Code / Opus 4.5

Synopsis

Solo episode distilling 10 prompting rules Anthropic has shared in docs and blog posts for getting more out of Claude Code and Opus 4.5: tone of collaboration, explicitness with action verbs and quantity, clear constraints, draft-plan-act outline first, demand structured output, explain the 'why', control brevity vs verbosity, provide scaffolds and templates, use power phrases ('think step by step', 'critique your own response'), and divide and conquer complex projects. Each rule is demoed across writing, research, teaching and planning, and the episode closes with a Stoicism lecture prompt that combines persona, context, constraints, structure and tone.