boris-prompts
Boris-Style Prompt Writer
Write high-quality prompts for any LLM or AI assistant, using the methodology Boris (Anthropic, the creator of Claude Code) shared in his "Pro Tips & Tricks" talk.
The skill exists because most users write prompts that are too long, too prescriptive, and missing the things that actually matter — a feedback loop, a planning step, the right anchor. Boris's approach inverts this: keep the prompt short, let the model explore, give it a way to check its own work, and sink reusable context into files rather than re-pasting it. The principles were developed for Claude Code, but they generalize to any modern LLM (ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, etc.).
When to use
Trigger this skill when any of the following is true:
- The user explicitly asks to write or improve a prompt for any LLM or AI assistant.
- The user describes a task in natural language and the next reasonable step is to phrase it as a prompt.
- The user pastes a long prompt and asks why it isn't working, or asks to shorten or refine it.
- The user asks "how should I phrase this" or "what's a good way to ask [model] to...".
Do not trigger for: writing marketing copy, writing user-facing UI text, or writing prompts for image-generation models. This skill is specifically for instruction prompts addressed to an LLM or AI agent.