Claude / Getting Started & Prompt Design
Claude: ask for clarification before a large assignment
List what you know about a training session and what remains undecided. Keep budget, audience and duration visibly separate.
Environment and inputs: Claude user guide · Feature and source access depend on the active account, app and organization settings. Optional file or app steps have a text-excerpt fallback. No fixed model version, price or usage quota is assumed.
What you will make
A practical Claude guide to ask for clarification before a large assignment. Use the sample input and prompt, then check the result. Use a fictional support-document review as the practice setting. Keep passages and your interpretation in separate output fields.
Prepare the source and scope
List what you know about a training session and what remains undecided. Keep budget, audience and duration visibly separate. Open Claude and start a focused conversation, or use the appropriate existing project for recurring work.
Try this prompt
In Claude, provide the prepared input, then send the following request. For real work, replace fictional details with approved facts.
Before drafting my training plan, ask up to five questions that would change the agenda. Known: beginner staff, remote delivery. Unknown: duration, team size and practical exercise.Review the result
Questions should resolve decisions rather than repeat supplied facts. Answer them before requesting the full agenda. Record each correction and its supporting source.
If the answer is wrong or incomplete
Do not let the assistant silently pick a training length or assume every participant has the same software access. Put the source excerpt and the request in separate labeled blocks. For longer reviews, retain paragraph labels so corrections remain traceable.
Practice and completion check
Repeat with one incomplete input. Check the answer against the review criteria, remove unsupported claims and save the prompt with its source version. This workflow has not been verified in a customer deployment.