10/08/2026
Most people use Claude at 10% of its capability. Here's the complete Do's & Don'ts:
✅ TOP DO'S:
🗂️ Use Projects for every workstream
📋 Load context before prompting
🎭 Define role, audience, and format upfront
🔧 Build Skills for repeated tasks
🏷️ Use XML tags for complex prompts
🤝 Let Claude interview you first on large tasks
🔍 Enable web search for current topics
🧠 Use Extended Thinking for complex reasoning
🔗 Connect Claude via MCP — Gmail, Notion, Slack
⚖️ Choose the right model — Sonnet for most, Opus for complex
🔄 Refine with follow-up prompts, don't rewrite from scratch
🏗️ Treat Claude as infrastructure, not a chatbot
❌ TOP DON'TS:
❌ Don't use one-line prompts for complex tasks
❌ Don't mix unrelated tasks in one chat
❌ Don't assume Claude remembers — set up memory first
❌ Don't let context windows get overloaded
❌ Don't accept the first draft as final
❌ Don't use Opus for everything — Sonnet is faster for most tasks
❌ Don't ask vague questions — specific prompts = specific answers
❌ Don't stop at prompting — build systems with Skills, Projects, Memory
The biggest unlock?
99% treat Claude as a prompt-response tool.
The 1% treat it as infrastructure.
That mindset shift is everything.
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