Six things you built across this course, collected in one place. All copy-pasteable, all ungated, all yours to carry into every project after this one. Nothing here is withheld.
These are the keepers. Each one appeared in a chapter; here they sit together so you can copy them into any project, any time, without hunting back through the course. Fill in the brackets with your own real material. None of it is locked, blurred, or saved for a paid tier. That would be the funnel move this course refuses.
1 · PERSONAL CONSTITUTION
From Chapter 3. The document every future project inherits: who you are, how you work, what you value, how you sound. Write it once, load it everywhere.
Personal constitution (template)
WHO I AM
[What you do, for whom, in one or two plain sentences.]
HOW I WORK
[Your habits and constraints. Solo or team, your rhythm, what you always
do, what you never do.]
WHAT I VALUE
[Three to five principles you will not trade away.]
HOW I SOUND
[Your voice in three words, plus one rule about what you would never say.]
2 · STARTER CLAUDE.MD
From Chapter 7. The standing law of a single project. It inherits your constitution, then adds the rules this project specifically needs.
Starter CLAUDE.md
# CLAUDE.md
## Who I am
Read my constitution file first and treat it as how I sound in everything.
Short version: [one line about you and this project].
## What this project is
[What the project is for, and the default it should assume.]
## How to behave
- Match my voice. [Your tone in a few words.]
- [A rule about format or process you always want.]
- When you cite a fact, say where it came from.
## Never
- Never invent a statistic, a quote, or a source.
- Never use the words [your banned words].
- [One more hard limit that is specifically yours.]
## When unsure
Ask me one clear question before writing. Do not guess at the brief.
3 · VOICE FILE
From Chapter 16. Deeper than the constitution's voice line. A real sample of you plus your never-list, so the model matches you instead of the average human.
Voice file (template)
# How I sound
## In three words
[e.g. plain, dry, warm]
## My rhythm
[Short sentences or long? Point first or build to it? Paste two or three
sentences you actually wrote and like.]
## Words and moves I use
[The phrases, the kind of detail, the bluntness or warmth that is yours.]
## Words and moves I would NEVER use
[Your banned list. e.g. passionate, journey, unlock, elevate, exclamation
marks, the "it is not just X, it is Y" shape, tidy lists of three.]
## When checking my writing
Flag anything from the NEVER list. Flag any sentence that could have been
written about anyone. Keep the bits that sound like a real person, even
the slightly odd ones.
4 · THE HONESTY INSTRUCTION
From Chapter 11. Paste this in to make the model separate what it knows from what it is guessing, and stop papering over uncertainty with confident prose.
The honesty instruction
From now on, separate what you know from what you are guessing.
- When you state a fact, a number, a date, or a quote, tell me how sure you
are and where it would come from. If you are not sure, say so plainly.
- Never invent a source, a statistic, or a quote. If you do not have it,
say "I do not have a reliable source for this."
- Flag the single most important claim in your answer and tell me how I
could verify it myself.
- I would rather you say "I am not certain" than sound confident and be wrong.
5 · THE FIRST-TASK PICKER
For when you do not know where to start. Run this and it helps you choose the one real task worth directing today, instead of freezing in front of a blank chat.
The first-task picker
Help me pick one real task to do with you right now.
Ask me:
- What is on my plate this week that I keep putting off?
- Which of those is mostly thinking and writing, not waiting on other people?
- Which one, if it were done today, would actually take weight off me?
Then pick the single best first task with me, and we will do that one,
end to end. Keep it small enough to finish in one sitting.
6 · THE GRILL-ME / SPEC PROMPT
From Chapters 9 and 19. The move that reaches shared understanding before any work happens. Use it for a task or to design a whole repeatable flow.
The grill-me / spec prompt
I want you to help me with [the task or workflow].
Before you do anything, interview me. Ask me one question at a time about
what I actually want, who it is for, what done looks like, where it usually
goes wrong, and what would make it wrong. Keep asking until you are about
ninety-five percent sure you understand it as well as I do.
Only when you are confident, show me the plan. Do not start the work until
I say go.
You did not just learn about these. You built them, filled with your own material. They are the part of the course you carry into everything after it.