Learning Timeline
Key Insights
Prompt Structure for Beginners
For the best results in Claude Code, ensure your prompt includes 5 elements: 1. What to build, 2. Who the target user is, 3. Its core functionality, 4. What the UI should look like, and 5. Data sources to reference.
Advantages of the Markdown (.md) Format
AI can understand data structures more easily in Markdown format because using hashtags (#) as headers allows it to distinguish between company vision, team info, and product strategy in a much more organized way.
Project-Specific Context
Ensure each project folder has its own 'claude.md' file. This allows the AI to provide highly specific responses tailored to that project's needs without mixing it up with other business information.
Prompts
Business Context Interview Prompt
Target:
Claude Chat / ChatGPT
Interview me about my business and everything you should know about it. Once finished, turn that information into a markdown document called claude.md with clear sections using headers.
Context-Based App Building Prompt
Target:
Claude Code
Create a tool that fetches news from sources like TechCrunch and generates YouTube titles, social posts, and newsletter content based on the branding and positioning defined in my claude.md file.
Step by Step
How to Set Up a claude.md File for Business Context
- Open your preferred chatbot, such as Claude Chat or ChatGPT.
- Ask the AI to interview you about your business details or gather information from your existing conversation history.
- Instruct the AI to convert that information into Markdown format.
- Copy the text content and save it as a new file named 'claude.md'.
- Use hashtags (#) within the file to separate sections like 'Core Positioning', 'Team Info', and 'Company Overview'.
- Create a new folder specifically for the AI application project you want to build.
- Move the 'claude.md' file into the newly created project folder.
- Open your terminal or the Claude Code interface and ensure you are inside that project folder.
- Enable the 'auto-accept edits' feature if you want Claude Code to manage file changes automatically.
- Enter your task prompt to start building the application based on the context provided in the file.
