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Claude Skillmap: 40 decisions you can practise.
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Prompt Engineering
Schema Design
Represent missing values and constrained categories explicitly in schemas.
Semantic Validation
Validate evidence and business rules independently of schema conformance.
Representative Examples
Use diverse representative examples to specify the expected task output.
Structured Final Output
Use schema-constrained final outputs for machine consumers.
Reasoning Budget
Choose reasoning depth from task complexity and its token cost.
Context Budget
Distinguish input capacity, output limits, and token budgeting.
Explicit Prompt Contract
Express task structure and desired behavior precisely.
Sampling Control
Use temperature for sampling diversity rather than correctness guarantees.
Staged Extraction
Decompose long-document extraction into verified stages.
Context Management
Selective Retrieval
Retrieve only relevant high-signal context and evaluate retrieval granularity.
Context Compaction
Compact noisy context while retaining evidence and retrievable detail.
Streaming
Use streaming for long outputs and responsive delivery.
Decision Audit
Record observable actions and supporting evidence for an auditable decision trail.
Tools & MCP
Protocol Loop
Drive tool loops and completion from protocol state.
Recoverable Tool Errors
Return structured failures with bounded retry and recovery guidance.
Tool Contract
Make tool purpose, inputs, and boundaries unambiguous.
Mcp Boundary
Use MCP as a standard context and tool interface, not an authorization guarantee.
Bounded Execution
Set explicit execution budgets and termination safeguards.
Strict Tool Input
Constrain tool arguments with strict input schemas.
Tool Choice
Select automatic, forced, and parallel tool-call controls for the requirement.
Tool Discovery
Discover relevant tools on demand instead of loading the whole inventory.
Computer Interface
Choose computer use when a task requires interaction through a graphical interface.
Safety & Control
Cost & Performance
Agentic Architecture
Simplest Workflow
Prefer a fixed workflow until task uncertainty justifies autonomy.
Parallel Decomposition
Parallelize independent work with bounded responsibilities and synthesis.
Evaluation Loop
Bound iterative improvement with measurable rubrics and verification.
Escalation Boundary
Escalate when authority, evidence, or user-only decisions block safe progress.
Durable Handoff
Preserve verified decisions, evidence, constraints, and open work across sessions.
Bounded Subagent
Give specialists explicit context, contracts, and restricted capabilities.
Claude Code
Scoped Repo Guidance
Place shared and path-specific guidance at the matching repository scope.
Plan Before Change
Review the plan before allowing consequential repository changes.
Headless Code Output
Use noninteractive CLI output contracts for automation.
Specialist Routing
Classify first when exactly one specialist path should handle the input.
Deterministic Policy
Enforce mandatory lifecycle policy in code or hooks.
Secret Boundary
Reference secrets through protected runtime configuration, not committed instructions.