How to set up Claude so it never forgets you:

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Prompts → Projects → Skills (explained in 3 mins)

Prompts = telling a stranger your job every morning.

Projects = giving a new hire a binder on day one.

Skills = training an employee once. For forever.

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Step 1: Start with a Prompt (but don't stay there)

✦ Open Claude. Type your task. Get an answer.

✦ It works. But tomorrow? Claude forgot everything.

✦ You re-explain. Again. Every. Single. Chat.

✦ That's Level 1. Most people never leave it.

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Step 2: Move to a Project

✦ Go to Claude .ai → Create a Project.

✦ Upload your voice file. Upload your instructions.

✦ Now every chat inside that Project knows you.

✦ Your context, style, and tone stick.

But you still have to open the right Project.

You still have to say "read my file first."

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Step 3: Graduate to Skills

✦ Open Claude Cowork.

✦ Select Opus 4.7 + Extended Thinking.

✦ Prompt: "Use the skill-creator to help me build a skill for [your most repeated task]."

Claude interviews you. Answer extensively.

"I write reports" is useless.

"I write weekly reports that start with the headline metric, 3 sections max, next steps as bullets" is a Skill.

The specificity is the skill.

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Step 4: Install and test

✦ Save the Skill folder.

✦ Go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload.

✦ Open a new chat. Type your task normally.

✦ The Skill fires on its own. No slash command.

✦ Claude just knows.

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I just wrote my full Claude Skills breakdown. It covers setup, the skill-creator walkthrough, and the 7 hacks I found buried in Anthropic's docs.

Read it here: ruben.substack.com/p/cl…

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♻️ Restack this to help someone on your team stop re-explaining themselves to Claude every morning.