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name: project-setup
description: "Write custom instructions and pick project knowledge so every chat in a Claude Project starts with context. Use when the user wants help with Claude Project Setup. Related topics: AI, Claude, Productivity."
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# Claude Project Setup

Write custom instructions and pick project knowledge so every chat in a Claude Project starts with context.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **What I'll use this project for** (longer free text)
- **Who I am to it** (free text, e.g. "My role")
- **Reference material I can add as project knowledge** (longer free text)
- **Default output style** (choose one: Short and direct, Detailed and thorough, Bullet points, Match whatever I paste)

## Prompt template

## Claude Project Setup

Help me set up a Claude Project so every chat inside it already knows the context.

- What I'll use this project for: {{What I'll use this project for}}
- Who I am to it: {{Who I am to it}}
- Reference material I can add as project knowledge: {{Reference material I can add as project knowledge}}
- Default output style: {{Default output style}}

Write the custom instructions for the project: who Claude is acting as, what it should assume I know, how to format replies, and what to ask for when my request is thin. Then tell me which of my reference docs are worth loading as knowledge versus pasting per chat, and how to word the instructions so they don't fight with individual prompts later.

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Source: [Claude Project Setup on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/e7x4G5mny487IPAWlzwp/claude-project-setup)