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Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt(simonwillison.net) Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed digging through the prompts, since they act as a sort of unofficial manual for how best to use these tools. Here are my highlights, including a dive into the leaked tool prompts that Anthropic didn’t publish themselves.
Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt(simonwillison.net) Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed digging through the prompts, since they act as a sort of unofficial manual for how best to use these tools. Here are my highlights, including a dive into the leaked tool prompts that Anthropic didn’t publish themselves.
Claude 4 System Card(simonwillison.net) Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and this one for the new Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 has some particularly spicy notes. It's also 120 pages long - nearly three times the length of the system card for Claude 3.7 Sonnet!
Google to embrace MCP(techcrunch.com) Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit.
MCP: The new "USB-C for AI" that's bringing fierce rivals together(arstechnica.com) What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic's founders to quit OpenAI in 2020 and later create the Claude AI assistant, a shared technical hurdle has now brought them together: How to easily connect their AI models to external data sources.
How I've run major projects(benkuhn.net) My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:” coordinating major, time-sensitive implementation or debugging efforts.
GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic(bloomberg.com) Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub has agreed to bake artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and Alphabet Inc.’s Google into a coding assistant used by millions of software developers.