The wrap prompt I use to improve my prompts
Most people fix prompts by iterating. Write one, get mediocre output, add a sentence, try again. That loop is slow and you don't learn much from it โ you just keep bolting on instructions until something works. This is a meta-prompt. Paste this one first, then paste your rough prompt underneath, and it does three things in one pass: 1. Diagnoses what's actually wrong โ goal alignment, missing context, vague or conflicting instructions, what a technically-correct-but-wrong output would look like 2. Rewrites with full authority and executes the improved version as the response 3. Produces a changelog artifact showing the revised prompt, what each change fixes, and flags for problems a rewrite alone can't solve The changelog is the point. You don't just get better output โ you see the diagnosis, which means you write better prompts next time without needing the wrapper. Paste this, then drop your prompt under the dashes: ๐๐ป ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ. ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข๐จ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ: ๐๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ? ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ? ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ? ๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ง๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ท๐ข๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด? ๐๐ฆ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ โ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง. ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ด; ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต. ๐๐น๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ. ๐๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ต (.๐ฎ๐ฅ) ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ: 1. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต (๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ) 2. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐น๐ฆ๐ด 3. ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ. ------- [๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ] ๐๐ป One caveat: "don't ask first" means Claude will sometimes reinterpret the goal in a direction you didn't intend. The changelog is the safety net โ read it, push back on anything you disagree with, and the next run gets tighter. Works best on prompts that feel off, but you can't say why. If you know exactly what's wrong, just fix it.