Prompts for Claude Code and Cowork · version 1.1 · 16 October 2026

Safe Start

Five prompts to start and end every Claude session the safe way, in any project: apps, reports, document sets, data rooms. Prompt 0 finds out by itself whether the project is new, a normal restart or a broken session.

Start fresh, nothing forgotten: the memory lives in files, not in the chat.

How it works

  1. Copy one prompt, fill in the parts in <angle brackets>, and paste it as the FIRST message of a new session.
  2. Claude reads the project's files (rules, current facts, the latest note), runs the health check and tells you in 5 lines where you stand. It changes nothing until you say "go".
  3. At the end, Prompt D gives you the session note and the exact first message for the next session.
  4. Works on its own, and better together with the session-guard skill and the Session view of AI Usage Meter.

What's inside

Six rules of good practice, then five prompts:

  • Best practice in 6 rules
  • Prompt 0: universal start (it checks whether the project is new, a restart or broken)
  • Prompt A: normal start (use this most of the time)
  • Prompt B: after a broken or confused session
  • Prompt C: first session in a new project
  • Prompt D: end of a session

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