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One File That Stops Claude Guessing What You Meant.

The exact prompt that makes Claude create an intent folder and interview you until it has zero questions left, the intent.md template it writes, where the file lives, and how every new chat reads it first. Lifted from Anthropic's own AI-native SDLC playbook.

  • The interview prompt, copy-paste, that creates the folder and asks one question at a time
  • The intent.md template: what is wanted, why, what it must never touch, what done looks like
  • Where the file lives and how to point a brand new chat at it before it builds
  • What Anthropic's team does next with the file (spec, plan) and when you actually need that

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The exact prompt that makes Claude create an intent folder and interview you until it has zero questions left, the intent.md template it writes, where the file lives, and how every new chat reads it first. Lifted from Anthropic's own AI-native SDLC playbook.

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What's Inside

The interview prompt, copy-paste, that creates the folder and asks one question at a time The intent.md template: what is wanted, why, what it must never touch, what done looks like Where the file lives and how to point a brand new chat at it before it builds What Anthropic's tea

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Setup

Getting it running The interview prompt, verbatim This is the exact prompt.

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What I want

[One or two sentences.

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  1. Why[The real reason.
  2. Who it is for[You, a client, a specific kind of user.
  3. What it must never touch[Files, systems, data, or behavior that has to stay exactly as it is.]
  4. What done looks like[The one observable thing that proves this is finished.
  5. Open questions[Anything you're not sure about yet.
  6. What happens after the file existsPoint every new chat at it first This is the part that actually changes the outcome.
  7. Common mistakesHonest limits Writing intent.md will not make Claude better at judgment calls, and it won't save you from a task you haven't thought through yourself.

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