Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
Why CEREBRO kept it
Claude system prompt deep-dive, mechanics analysis.
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<p>Anthropic <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts/overview">publish the system prompts</a> for their Claude consumer applications (<a href="https://claude.ai/">Claude.ai</a> and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I <em>love</em> that they do this, and that they share not just the current prompts but historic changes to their prompts as well.</p>
<p>They used to keep all of the prompts on a single page, but when I checked today I noticed they had re-arranged those prompts into an <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/e
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