Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2
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Official Claude prompting guidance for coding-agent behavior
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<blockquote cite="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-fable-5-2#say-who-owns-the-code"><p>Claude Fable 5.2 responds closely to what the prompt says about who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, when a prompt said nothing about ownership or presented the code base as someone else’s, the model tended to add to the existing structure, even when that repeated existing code. [...]</p> <p>If you want the model to improve the structure as it works, say that the code is its own:</p> <blockquote> <p><code>This co
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