The 4-Phrase Claude Cheat Sheet

You know the feeling.

You open Claude with a good idea in your head. You type it out. It's close, but not quite right. So you try again. Different words, same idea. Third time, you finally get something usable — and you have no idea how you got there.

Next week, you do the whole thing over again. From scratch.

That's not an AI problem. That's a missing-system problem.

I burned forty-five minutes on a task that should've taken ten before I figured this out. Four phrases fixed it. Now they're yours, free.

What's inside:

• "Interview me." — Gets Claude asking you the right questions first, so you stop guessing what it needs to know.

• "Run sub-agents." — Why cramming everything into one chat window quietly wrecks your results, and the fix.

• "Build a skill." — How to capture your best results the moment you get them, so you're never rebuilding from zero.

• "QA your work." — The one-line check that keeps you from scaling a broken process by accident.

Each phrase comes with a real example you can copy straight into your next chat.

One page. Print it. Stick it by your keyboard. Stop starting over.

— Joe