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BEST PRACTICES · PROMPT HUB

Prompts that set up your life.

Curated and tested by club members. Pick one, fill in the brackets, paste it into Claude.

CLAUDE CODEL1 · WORKS IN CLAUDE

Set up Claude Code on your laptop

For your first time in a terminal. Claude goes one step at a time and waits for you.

I've never used a terminal. Walk me through installing Claude Code on my [Mac / Windows] laptop.

Go one step at a time. After each step, stop and wait for me to paste what I see. If something errors, explain it in plain English before giving the fix.
STUDYL1 · WORKS IN CLAUDE

Turn lecture notes into a practice quiz

Active recall beats rereading. Paste your notes and get quizzed.

Here are my notes from [course], [topic]:

[paste notes]

Write 10 questions that test understanding, not memorization. Ask them one at a time, wait for my answer, grade it, and explain anything I missed.
AUTOMATIONSL2 · WORKS IN CLAUDE

A morning news brief, sent to you

A scheduled task that messages you the news you actually care about.

Set up a scheduled task that runs every weekday at [7 AM].

Each run: search for the most important news from the last 24 hours on [topic], and send me five bullets, each with one sentence of why it matters and a link.
Curated by Aiden Hodgson
CLAUDE CODEL3 · WORKS IN CLAUDE CODE

Build and deploy your portfolio

The Portfolio Build Day prompt. Ends with a live site on your .me domain.

Build me a one-page portfolio site in plain HTML and CSS.

About me: [name, major, year]. Projects: [2 to 4 things you've made]. Style: [3 words].

Then walk me through pushing it to GitHub and connecting my [yourname].me domain.
LIFE ADMINL1 · WORKS IN CLAUDE

Plan your week from your syllabi

Turn a pile of due dates into a week you can actually follow.

Here are my syllabi and deadlines: [paste].

Build me a plan for this week with time blocks around my classes on [days and times]. Flag anything due in the next 10 days that I should start now.