useful-ai-prompts: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

useful-ai-prompts CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 1,341 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, covering a prompt-library project and its main commands. They describe the project layout, dependency installation, formatting, validation scripts, website commands, and prompt-conversion tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when editing the repository, installing dependencies, formatting code, building or serving its Jekyll website, converting prompts, fixing conversion errors, or updating the prompt index.
Why use it?
They give an AI assistant the project context and the commands needed to work consistently in that repository. This reduces guesswork about how to build, validate, and update the project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on useful-ai-prompts itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything useful-ai-prompts configures →

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Grade A, and why

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None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repository Overview

This is the Useful AI Prompts repository - a comprehensive library of specialized prompts designed for AI assistants to adopt expert personas when completing tasks. The repository contains 259+ prompts organized across 14 categories, combining multiple expert perspectives with professional frameworks.

Key Commands

Development Commands

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Code formatting
npx prettier --write .

# Validation scripts
python validate_jekyll_conversion.py
python update_prompt_index.py

Jekyll Website (docs/ directory)

cd docs/
bundle install           # Install Ruby dependencies
bundle exec jekyll build # Build the site
bundle exec jekyll serve # Serve locally (http://localhost:4000)

Prompt Management

# Convert old format prompts to new conversational format
python batch_convert_prompts.py

# Fix conversion errors
python fix_conversion_errors.py

# Update the prompt index
python update_prompt_index.py

Architecture Overview

Directory Structure

  • /prompts/ - Main prompt library organized by domain (technical, business, creative, specialized)
  • /docs/ - Jekyll website for browsing prompts (GitHub Pages deployment)
  • /metadata/ - Framework definitions and guidelines
  • /_prompts/ (in docs) - Jekyll collection of converted prompts for website
  • Python scripts - Conversion, validation, and maintenance utilities

Prompt Architecture

Each prompt follows a conversational, user-friendly format:

  • Clear metadata (category, tags, use cases)
  • Helpful description explaining the prompt's purpose
  • Interactive questions to understand user's context
  • Structured deliverables based on user's needs
  • Practical examples showing usage

Data Flow

  1. Source prompts in /prompts/ directories
  2. Conversion scripts transform to Jekyll format in /docs/_prompts/
  3. Jekyll builds website from /docs/ directory
  4. PROMPT-INDEX.json provides machine-readable catalog

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

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useful-ai-prompts CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (336 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,341 tokens to every session, about $0.0067 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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