“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller

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  • A few random notes :

    • interesting that it uses html notation to identify sections, not Markdown which is supposed to be “LLM-friendly” (eg, skills)
    • interesting that the docs refer to Claude entirely in the 3rd person. “Claude defaults to helping”, not “You are a helpful …”
    • Claude is implied to be singular yet multiple: “ask the Claude in that application”
    • whatever is prompting Claude is referred to as “the person” but in reality could well be another bot
    • given that context window is fixed and this system prompt takes a fixed overhead for every single call, I am surprised at how repetitive and wordy it is. I would have expected a document that a dozen good editors went over to make as parsimonious as possible