Give Claude your buy box once
Lesson 1 of 3 · Claude & Cowork mastery
1 · Learn the move · Context + audience
Stop re-typing who you are every chat. Write your counties, your buy box, and your grounding rule once as a Claude Project's instructions, and every conversation inside that Project starts already knowing them. The move is context + audience: name the situation (a land buyer working one specific set of counties) and who the instructions serve (you, on every task), so Claude stops guessing.
These are the standing instructions for my Claude Project. I buy raw land in [counties]. My voice: plain, direct, no hype adjectives. Never state an acreage, a boundary, a deadline or a value that didn't come from a record I supplied. When I paste a task, apply all of this without me repeating it.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You open a fresh Claude chat five times a day and retype the same setup, your counties, your buy box, your grounding rule. Before you can ask for anything. Write the Project instructions that carry all of it so you never paste that preamble again.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.