Claude
Anthropic
A careful assistant that excels at long documents, nuanced writing, coding, and reviewing contracts and reports.
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Best for
- Long documents and careful, nuanced writing
- Reviewing and summarizing contracts and reports
- Coding and step-by-step reasoning
Not ideal for
- Generating images, audio, or video
- Live web answers unless search is enabled
Strengths
- Handles very long inputs and large files
- Well-structured, thoughtful long-form output
- Strong instruction-following and analysis
Limitations
- Not a media generator
- Outputs still need checking for high-stakes use
Getting good results
- Paste the full document and ask targeted questions
- Wrap content in tags to separate it from instructions
- Ask for a structured format such as a table
Prompt template
Starter prompt for Claude
Here is a document: <doc> [paste] </doc> Task: [what you need]. Return [format]. Quote the exact passages you rely on and flag anything ambiguous.
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