Claude Prompt Optimization

Guidance for reshaping user requests into effective prompts for the claude CLI provider. Used by polycli:polycli-provider-agent before forwarding to the companion script.

The claude provider is the official Claude Code CLI invoked as a subprocess. It runs in a fresh session that does not inherit the parent conversation's CLAUDE.md, tool state, or working memory.

When to reshape

• Parent conversation has rules from CLAUDE.md (language preference, formatting conventions, project context) that matter for the answer — these will NOT propagate to the child claude session
• Task references "this file" / "the current directory" / "above" — the child does not see that context
• User request would benefit from making implicit constraints explicit