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Context Engineering

A template that gives Claude full context up front so features ship with fewer re-prompts.

Open sourceBy Cole Medin (coleam00)
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What is it?

Context engineering is the idea that the quality of what Claude builds depends on what it knows going in. This template packages that into a workflow: project rules in CLAUDE.md, real code examples, and a Product Requirements Prompt (PRP) that spells out the feature, the gotchas and how to validate it.

Two commands do the work. /generate-prp researches your codebase and writes the plan; /execute-prp builds the feature against it, running checks as it goes. Fewer back-and-forth prompts means fewer wasted tokens and fewer half-finished features.

Install in Claude Code

Clone github.com/coleam00/context-engineering-intro as the starting point for a project. Edit CLAUDE.md with your rules, drop code examples into examples/, describe the feature in INITIAL.md, then run /generate-prp INITIAL.md and /execute-prp PRPs/<name>.md in Claude Code.

Try this prompt

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/generate-prp INITIAL.md

Who it's for

Anyone building real projects with Claude Code who wants it to get things right the first time.

Best for

  • Starting a new project
  • Bigger features
  • Fewer wasted tokens
  • Consistent project rules

Why it made the list

It is the simplest explanation of why Claude Code sometimes nails it and sometimes doesn't, with a fix.

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