Claude Opus 5.5 prompting: a guide to effort settings and long tasks
A user-created guide recommends testing effort settings on real tasks and keeping checklists for long runs, citing Anthropic's prompting guidance and Claude Code updates.
TLDR
The author presents the 12-tip guide as a synthesis of Anthropic's prompting guidance and Claude Code updates. It recommends starting at medium effort, comparing settings on real tasks and keeping checklists for unfinished work. It also suggests setting time budgets, but cautions that they are advisory—not hard cutoffs—and that time pressure may lead to less searching and verification. For design work, it recommends naming specific styles to avoid or supplying a design system.
Claude Opus 5.5 prompting: a guide to effort settings and long tasks
A user-created guide recommends testing effort settings on real tasks and keeping checklists for long runs, citing Anthropic's prompting guidance and Claude Code updates.
TLDR
The author presents the 12-tip guide as a synthesis of Anthropic's prompting guidance and Claude Code updates. It recommends starting at medium effort, comparing settings on real tasks and keeping checklists for unfinished work. It also suggests setting time budgets, but cautions that they are advisory—not hard cutoffs—and that time pressure may lead to less searching and verification. For design work, it recommends naming specific styles to avoid or supplying a design system.