Meta Prompt

# Meta-Prompt: turn a rough request into a structured Claude prompt

This meta-prompt is a tool you hand to Claude. You paste in a rough,
half-formed request, and Claude returns a clean, structured prompt you can
reuse — role, context, constraints, analysis order, output format, and
`{{placeholders}}` where your data goes.

It encodes the same method as the rest of this repo, which paraphrases the
ideas in Anthropic's "Prompting 101" talk. **This project is unofficial and is
not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Anthropic. "Claude" and
"Anthropic" are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC.**

## How to use it

1. Copy the block below into a new conversation with Claude.
2. Replace `{{rough_request}}` with whatever you have — even a messy sentence.
3. Send it. Claude returns a finished prompt in a code block plus a short note
   on why it is shaped that way.
4. Fill in any `{{placeholders}}` in the result and use it.

If your request is genuinely incomplete, Claude will ask exactly one clarifying
question first — but only when the missing piece truly blocks writing the prompt.

## The meta-prompt