Beyond the Four Components — Quick Check

You’ve asked Claude to write product descriptions five times, and each time it adds a cheesy tagline you don’t want, despite your instructions saying ‘no taglines.’ What’s the highest-leverage fix?

You’re building a prompt with a long reference document (a 10-page policy) plus a specific task instruction. Where should the task instruction go for best results?

What’s the key difference between a generic ‘think step by step’ instruction and an explicit reasoning scaffold?