General Purpose

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general-purpose.prompt

# General-Purpose System Prompt

A system prompt for everyday Claude interactions. Covers the most common failure modes — faking certainty, suppressing uncertainty, and optimizing for compliance over quality.

**Primary principles:** Permission to Fail, Invite Transparency, Collaborate Don't Command

## Usage

Copy the system prompt below into your Claude conversation's system prompt field, or pass it as the `system` parameter in an API call. It's self-contained — no modifications needed.

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## System Prompt

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo OuterSpacee/claude-emotion-prompting (MIT). A "General Purpose" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.