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// 15 ready-to-use AI prompts — copy and go

What do you want
AI to do for you?

Pick a category. Find a task that matches your work. Copy the prompt and paste it into claude.ai — replace the brackets with your own details. Most people get useful output in under 3 minutes.

Showing 15 prompts
Beginner Quick win 2 min
Summarize a long document in 2 minutes
Good for: anyone who reads long reports, research papers, contracts, or meeting notes

Paste any document and get back a clear, accurate summary. Works for PDFs, emails, reports, articles — anything you can paste as text. Most people find this cuts reading time by 70%.

Summarize this document for me. I need:
- The 3 most important points
- Any decisions that need to be made
- Key dates or deadlines mentioned
- Anything I need to follow up on

Document:
[paste your document here]
Beginner Quick win 60 sec
Draft a professional email in 60 seconds
Good for: anyone who writes emails at work and wants them clearer and faster

Describe what you need to say and get a well-written draft back. Edit it before you send — AI drafts are a starting point, not a final product. Always review before hitting send.

Write a professional email for me.

Context: [explain the situation — who are you writing to, what's the relationship, what happened]
Goal: [what do you want the email to accomplish]
Tone: [formal / friendly / direct / apologetic — pick one]
Keep it under [X] lines.

End with a clear next step for the reader.
Beginner 5 min
Turn a messy transcript into clean meeting notes
Good for: anyone who runs or attends meetings and spends time writing up notes afterward

Paste a raw transcript — from Zoom, Teams, or even rough notes — and get back structured meeting notes with decisions, action items, and who said what.

Turn this meeting transcript into clean notes.

I need:
- A 2-sentence summary of the meeting
- Decisions that were made (with who decided)
- Action items (with owner and deadline if mentioned)
- Open questions or things that need follow-up

Transcript:
[paste your transcript here]
Intermediate 10 min
Get a weekly digest of news in your field
Good for: professionals who need to stay current but don't have time to read everything

Paste 5–10 articles or news items and get back a synthesized digest that highlights what matters and why it's relevant to your work. Build a weekly habit with this one.

I'm a [your job title] in [your industry]. Here are [X] articles from this week.

For each, give me:
- One sentence on what happened
- Why it matters to someone in my role
- Whether I need to act on this or just be aware

Then give me an overall "this week's theme" in 2 sentences.

Articles:
[paste article titles + text or summaries]
Beginner Quick win 3 min
Rewrite something you wrote to sound more professional
Good for: anyone who writes reports, proposals, or messages and wants them to land better

Paste what you wrote and tell Claude what you want it to sound like. It'll rewrite while keeping your meaning intact. Always read before you send — you know your audience better than AI does.

Rewrite this for me. Keep my meaning exactly the same.

Make it: [more formal / clearer / shorter / more confident / easier to read — pick one or describe what you want]
Audience: [who will read this — their role, how well they know the topic]

Original:
[paste your text here]
Beginner 5 min
Explain a complex topic in plain English
Good for: anyone who needs to communicate technical or specialized ideas to a non-expert audience

Whether it's a legal concept, a technical system, or a medical condition — AI can help you translate it into language your audience will actually understand and act on.

Explain [topic] to someone who has no background in [field].

They understand: [what they do know — their job, their experience]
They need to understand: [what specific part matters for them]
Use an analogy if it helps. Avoid jargon. Keep it under 200 words.
Intermediate 10 min
Build a presentation outline in 5 minutes
Good for: anyone who needs to present ideas to stakeholders, leadership, or clients

Tell Claude who you're presenting to, what you want them to do after, and your key points. It'll structure a clear outline with a logical flow — you fill in the details you know better than any AI.

Create a presentation outline for me.

Audience: [who they are, their level of familiarity with the topic]
Goal: [what you want them to do or believe after the presentation]
Time limit: [X minutes]
Key points I need to cover: [list them]

Give me slide titles, one sentence per slide on what goes there, and a suggested opening hook.
Intermediate 15 min
Check if an AI tool is safe to use at your organization
Good for: security, IT, compliance, and risk professionals evaluating new AI tools

Before your team adopts a new AI tool, there are specific security questions you need answered. This prompt gives you a structured vendor assessment checklist you can use in any evaluation.

I'm evaluating [AI tool name] for use in our organization. We work in [industry].

Give me a security and compliance assessment checklist covering:
1. Data handling — where does our data go, how is it stored, can it be used for training?
2. Access controls — how are user permissions managed?
3. Compliance — what certifications does it have (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR)?
4. Incident response — what happens if there's a breach?
5. Integration risks — what does it need access to in our environment?

Format as a checklist I can fill in with their answers.
Intermediate 20 min
Write an AI usage policy for your team
Good for: managers, HR, compliance, and IT security teams who need clear rules around AI use

A one-page AI usage policy tells your team what tools are approved, what data can't go in, and what requires human review. This is the first governance artifact every organization needs.

Write a one-page AI usage policy for our team.

Industry: [your industry]
Team size: [approximate]
Current AI tools in use: [list any — Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.]
Data sensitivity: [describe what kind of data your team handles]

The policy should cover:
- Approved AI tools and their permitted uses
- Data that must NEVER go into an AI tool (be specific)
- Tasks that require human review before acting on AI output
- How to report concerns or incidents
- Who owns the policy and when it will be reviewed

Keep it under one page. Plain language — not legalese.
Educational use only. The security prompt below is for authorized testing of systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. Not for use against systems without authorization. See the Cybersecurity + AI path for full ethical use guidelines.
Advanced Authorized use only
Test an AI app for prompt injection vulnerabilities
Good for: security professionals and developers — on systems you own or have written permission to test

Prompt injection is the #1 vulnerability in LLM applications — it's when a user's input tricks the model into ignoring its instructions. This prompt walks you through a structured security test.

I'm testing [AI application name] for prompt injection vulnerabilities.

The app: [describe what it does — customer support bot, document summarizer, etc.]
The system prompt purpose: [what it's supposed to do and not do]

Generate a test matrix for me with:
1. Direct injection attempts (user tries to override system prompt)
2. Indirect injection attempts (malicious content in data the app processes)
3. Role-play / persona bypasses
4. Instruction smuggling via special formatting

For each category, give me 3 specific test inputs I can try, and describe what a "fail" looks like — i.e., what behavior means the injection worked.
Beginner Quick win 5 min
Summarize medical research papers quickly
Good for: clinicians, nurses, and healthcare administrators who need to stay current on evidence

Paste an abstract or full paper text and get back a plain-English summary focused on what's clinically relevant. Always verify against the source — AI can miss nuance in complex studies.

Summarize this research paper for me. I'm a [your role] in [your specialty].

Tell me:
- What question the study was trying to answer
- How they studied it (briefly — study type, sample size)
- What they found
- Whether the findings are likely to change clinical practice, and why or why not
- Any major limitations I should know about

Paper:
[paste abstract or full text]
Beginner 10 min
Create patient education materials
Good for: clinicians, nurses, and health educators who explain conditions and treatments to patients

Write patient-facing content at the right reading level and tone. Never include actual patient data — write for the condition generally, then review and personalize yourself before sharing.

Write patient education material about [condition or procedure].

Target reading level: [6th grade / 8th grade / plain English for non-native speakers]
Key things the patient needs to understand:
- What this condition/procedure is
- What to expect
- What they need to do at home
- Warning signs to watch for
- When to call us

Do NOT include any personal medical advice. Write for general patient education only.
Length: one page or less.
Intermediate 15 min
Check whether a workflow is safe to run with AI
Good for: healthcare professionals who want to use AI at work while staying HIPAA-compliant

Before running any process with AI in a healthcare context, you need to know if patient data is involved. This prompt helps you assess a specific workflow for compliance risk before you build anything.

I want to use AI for this healthcare workflow: [describe the process in detail]

Help me assess:
1. Does this workflow involve PHI (protected health information)? What specifically?
2. Which steps could be done with AI on de-identified or general information?
3. Which steps require a human to handle because of PHI or clinical judgment?
4. What would a compliant version of this workflow look like?

I'm not asking for legal advice — I want a practical risk assessment to take to my compliance team.
Beginner Quick win 5 min
Debug an error you've been stuck on
Good for: developers, data analysts, and anyone who writes code and hits an error they can't figure out

Paste the error message and the relevant code and Claude will identify what's going wrong and how to fix it. Works best when you include the full error, not just the last line.

I'm getting this error and I can't figure out why:

Error message:
[paste the full error / stack trace]

Relevant code:
[paste the function or section where the error happens]

What I expected to happen: [describe]
What I was doing when it broke: [describe]

Tell me: what's causing this, and what's the fix? Explain why so I understand, not just what to change.
Beginner 5 min
Understand code you didn't write
Good for: developers joining a new codebase, analysts reading someone else's scripts, or anyone inheriting code

Paste unfamiliar code and get a plain-English explanation of what it does. Ask about specific parts. This speeds up onboarding and code review faster than anything else.

Explain this code to me. I [am familiar / am not familiar] with [language or framework].

Tell me:
- What this code does overall in plain English
- What each main section does
- Any parts that are unusual, risky, or that I should pay attention to
- Any obvious issues or improvements

Code:
[paste code here]
Intermediate 30 min
Add monitoring to your AI app before launch
Good for: developers building AI-powered applications who need to track errors, latency, and costs in production

The Sentry for AI SDK adds observability to your LLM calls — tracking token usage, latency, errors, and the content of each call — in a few lines of code. Essential before going live with any AI feature.

I'm building an AI application using [Anthropic Claude / OpenAI / LangChain — pick one].

Help me add production monitoring using Sentry for AI. I need to track:
- Errors and failures in my LLM calls
- Latency per request
- Token usage and cost
- The content of inputs and outputs (for debugging)

Give me the setup code and explain each step. I'm using [Python / Node.js — pick one].
My app does: [brief description of what your app does]
Intermediate 20 min
Design an automation for a repetitive task
Good for: operations, admin, and business professionals who do the same thing over and over

Describe the task you want to automate and Claude will help you design a workflow — including where AI fits, where a human needs to stay involved, and what tool to use to build it.

I want to automate this task: [describe it step by step — what triggers it, what you do, what the output is, who uses it]

Help me design an automation. Tell me:
1. Which steps AI can handle (and which prompt to use)
2. Which steps need a human to review before anything happens
3. What tool to use to connect everything (n8n, Zapier, Make, or a script)
4. What could go wrong and how to handle it

I have access to: [list tools — Slack, Gmail, Google Sheets, Notion, etc.]
I [can / cannot] write code.
Intermediate 10 min
Extract structured data from a pile of documents
Good for: ops, finance, legal, and admin teams who manually copy information out of PDFs, emails, or forms

Paste document content and tell Claude what fields to pull out. It returns structured data you can paste directly into a spreadsheet. Works on contracts, invoices, applications, and more.

Extract structured data from this document. Return a table with these columns:
[list the fields you want — e.g., Name, Date, Amount, Contract type, Expiry date]

If a field is missing from the document, put "not found."
If a field is ambiguous, flag it with a note.

Document:
[paste document text]
Beginner Quick win 10 min
Learn any skill faster with a personal study plan
Good for: anyone trying to learn something new — a tool, a concept, a language, a field

Tell Claude what you want to learn, how much time you have, and what you already know. It'll give you a practical plan with specific milestones — not just a vague list of topics to "research".

Create a practical learning plan for me.

I want to learn: [specific skill or topic]
My current level: [complete beginner / some familiarity / know basics, want to go deeper]
Time I can commit: [X hours per week]
My goal: [what I want to be able to DO when I'm done — be specific]
I prefer learning by: [reading / watching videos / building projects / a mix]

Give me a week-by-week plan with specific things to do each week — not just topics to "research."
Beginner 15 min
Use AI to prepare for a job interview
Good for: anyone preparing for a job interview, especially for AI-related roles

Practice answering interview questions, get feedback on your answers, and find gaps in your preparation before the real thing. Works for any role — not just AI jobs.

Help me prepare for a job interview.

Role I'm interviewing for: [job title and company type]
My background: [brief summary — current role, years of experience, relevant skills]
Format of interview: [behavioral / technical / case study / panel — or mix]

Give me:
1. The 5 questions most likely to come up for this role
2. What the interviewer is really looking for with each one
3. One strong answer structure for the hardest question
4. Two things I should ask them at the end
// Where these prompts come from

Every prompt is drawn from real published sources and tested in practice. Click any to explore the original research and curriculum.

↗ Anthropic Official Skills ↗ Sentry for AI ↗ Growth.exe — 1,116 Claude skills ↗ Cloud Security Guy ↗ virat-lab open curriculum
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