Claude Code Prompts — Independently Authored Prompt Collection

Independently written prompt templates for building AI coding agents, inspired by patterns observed in Claude Code codebase. System prompts, tool prompts, agent prompts, memory management, and multi-agent coordination.

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Claude Code System Prompts

We studied how Claude Code behaves in practice -- how it structures safety rules, routes tools, delegates to subagents, manages memory -- and wrote our own prompt collection from scratch implementing the same patterns.

Every prompt in this repo is independently authored. We observed what patterns make a coding agent reliable and wrote our own versions. From the team behind RepoWise.

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What's Inside

Quick Start

1. Browse the pattern files to understand how production coding agents structure their prompts.
2. Copy any complete prompt into your own agent configuration.
3. Replace {{PLACEHOLDER}} values with your stack, tool names, and risk policy.
4. For Cursor IDE users, drop skills/ into ~/.cursor/skills-cursor/ for instant integration.
5. Add codebase context with RepoWise so your agent actually understands the project it's working in.

Prompt Engineering Patterns

Patterns observed in how Claude Code structures its prompts — with analysis and independently written templates.

• System Prompt Architecture — layered identity, safety, and behavior
• Core Behavioral Rules — anti-over-engineering, minimal changes
• Safety and Risk Assessment — reversibility tiers, destructive action gates
• Tool-Specific Instructions — per-tool routing and constraints
• Agent Delegation — when and how to spawn subagents
• Verification and Testing — adversarial verification, anti-rationalization
• Memory and Context — summarization, session notes, memory extraction
• Multi-Agent Coordination — coordinator pattern, worker synthesis
• Auxiliary Prompts — utility prompts for titles, recaps, suggestions

Claude Code System Prompt

The complete system prompt covering identity, permissions, task execution, code style, safety, tool routing, tone, and output efficiency.

• System Prompt — the main agent identity and behavioral rules
• Coordinator Prompt — multi-agent orchestration mode

Claude Code Tool Prompts

Prompt templates for each tool a coding agent uses to interact with the filesystem, shell, web, and user.

• Shell Execution — bash command execution with sandbox, git safety, commit/PR workflows
• File Read — reading files, images, PDFs, notebooks
• File Edit — exact string replacement with uniqueness constraints
• File Write — creating new files with read-first safety
• Search Grep — ripgrep-powered content search
• Search Glob — fast file pattern matching
• Web Search — web search with mandatory source citations
• Web Fetch — URL fetching with AI-powered extraction
• Agent Launcher — spawning autonomous subagents
• Ask User — structured multiple-choice questions
• Plan Mode — entering planning mode before implementation

Claude Code Agent Prompts

Prompt templates for specialized subagents — each designed for a different task type.

• General Purpose Agent — research, search, multi-step tasks
• Code Explorer Agent — read-only codebase navigation
• Solution Architect Agent — design and planning
• Verification Specialist Agent — adversarial testing with PASS/FAIL/PARTIAL verdicts
• Documentation Guide Agent — documentation tasks

Claude Code Memory Prompts

How to manage context across long sessions — summarization, session notes, and persistent memory.

• Conversation Summary — 9-section context compression with no-tools constraint
• Session Notes — structured session state tracking
• Memory Extraction — persistent memory from recent messages
• Memory Consolidation — periodic memory cleanup and merging

Claude Code Utility Prompts

Small helper prompts for session management and user experience.

• Session Title — 3-7 word session title generation
• Tool Summary — 30-character tool action summaries
• Away Recap — "while you were away" session recaps
• Next Action Suggestion — suggested follow-up actions

Cursor Skills

Drop-in skills for Cursor IDE that implement these patterns directly.

• Skills Overview
• Coding Agent Standards — behavioral defaults for coding agents
• Verification Agent — adversarial verification workflow (strategies)
• Prompt Architect — prompt design methodology (reference)

Methodology

We studied how Claude Code behaves in practice and identified the behavioral rules, safety patterns, tool-routing strategies, and multi-agent coordination approaches that make it effective. We then independently authored every prompt in this repository from scratch, implementing the same patterns in our own words.

All content is original.

Pair With RepoWise for Full-Stack Agent Intelligence

The prompts in this repo handle agent behavior: safety, tool routing, delegation, verification. But behavior without context is like a senior engineer who's never seen the codebase. RepoWise fills that gap.