Deeper, Not Bigger
Most prompts ask for the surface answer: "fix this bug," "make the page faster." /be-ambitious is a free Claude skill that rewrites your prompt into the version a top expert would actually tackle — before Claude starts on it.
It Rewrites Your Prompt
Before doing your task, the skill answers four questions for your field:
- What would a top professional do that you're not asking for?
- What's the rawest material they'd start from, rather than a pre-digested summary?
- Which specific methods and tools would they use?
- What would independently prove the result is right?
It then rewrites your prompt to demand exactly that, and stops so you can review the new version before it runs. "Get the page to load in 5 seconds" becomes "get it under 200ms, with before-and-after measurements."
From an Anthropic Engineer's Method
The method comes from Felix Rieseberg, a lead engineer on Claude at Anthropic, and the article "How to be more ambitious." The community wrapped it into this free skill. Clone the repo into your Claude Code skills folder, then run /be-ambitious <your task>.
Good to Know
This is a free community skill based on an Anthropic engineer's approach, not an official Anthropic release. It rewrites the prompt; you still decide whether to run it. As with any skill, skim its SKILL.md before installing.
What's in the Guide
The four questions, an example of a prompt before and after, where the method comes from, the install and run commands, and a direct link to the repo.
The full field guide is in the PDF.
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