{"slug": "25-prompt-templates-worth-stealing-this-month", "title": "25 Prompt Templates Worth Stealing This Month", "summary": "The bestprompt.art editorial team published a collection of 25 prompt templates for September 2026, combining eight templates adapted from Anthropic's public Claude Code prompt library with 17 written in-house. The editors state the list was not reader-voted and organize each template around a five-part structure of role, context, task, format, and constraints.", "body_md": "25 Prompt Templates\n\nThe editor’s picks for September, pulled from Anthropic’s own public prompt library and rebuilt in-house for the jobs our readers actually ask about — writing, coding, business communication, and decision-making. No vague advice, just prompts you can paste in as-is.\n\nPublished September 17, 2026\n\n·\n\n18 min read\n\n·\n\nbestprompt.art editorial team\n\nHow this list was built. We don’t yet have a live reader-voting feature on bestprompt.art, so despite this month’s working title, nothing here is “reader-voted” — that’s on our roadmap, and we’ll say so plainly again if it launches. What you’re getting instead: 8 templates adapted from Anthropic’s official, public Claude Code prompt library, credited individually below, and 17 templates written in-house by our editorial team, following the role–context–task–format–constraints structure that shows up across most serious prompt-engineering guides. We tell you which is which under each card.\n\nIf you’ve read our other tool roundups, you know we’re skeptical of “500 prompts that will change your life” listicles. Most of them are one template copy-pasted 500 times with the nouns swapped. This is the opposite bet: 25 templates, each doing something structurally different, each with a one-line explanation of why it works — so that once you understand the pattern, you can build your own instead of coming back here every month.\n\nThe five-part shape almost every good template shares\n\nBefore the list: nearly every template below (and most templates worth using anywhere) is a variation on the same five slots. Naming them makes it much easier to fix a template that isn’t working, instead of just rewriting the whole thing from scratch.\n\nRole\n\nwho’s answering\n\nContext\n\nwhat it needs to know\n\nTask\n\nthe one clear ask\n\nFormat\n\nshape of the answer\n\nConstraints\n\nlength, tone, limits\n\nDrop any one slot and the model guesses on your behalf — usually wrong.\n\nEvery template card below tells you which slots it’s leaning on hardest, so when you adapt one for your own use case, you know which part to rewrite and which part to leave alone.\n\nWhere the 25 came from\n\nWe’re not going to pretend these were crowd-tested against thousands of submissions — that’s not honest, and it’s not what happened. Here’s the actual split:\n\nAdapted from Anthropic’s public library\n\n8\n\nWritten in-house by our editors\n\n17\n\nBar length is scaled to template count (25 total). Source attribution is repeated under each individual card below.\n\nSection 1 — Ship code faster\n\nAdapted from Anthropic’s public Claude Code prompt library\n\nThese eight are lightly edited versions of prompts Anthropic itself publishes for Claude Code users. We didn’t invent the underlying pattern — we picked the eight we reach for most often and added the “why it works” note in our own words.\n\n01\n\nGet oriented in an unfamiliar codebase\n\nAnthropic\n\nUses Task + Format. You’re not naming files — you’re describing the outcome and letting the model find its own way in.\n\ngive me an overview of this codebase: architecture, key directories, and how the pieces connect\n\nSwap in: nothing — this one works as-is on almost any repo.\n\n02\n\nCheck what breaks before you delete something\n\nAnthropic\n\nA guardrail prompt. Asking “what depends on this” before you cut code turns a risky delete into an informed one.\n\nwhat would break if I deleted the retryWithBackoff helper?\n\nSwap in: the function, class, or config key you’re about to remove.\n\n03\n\nPlan a multi-file change before touching code\n\nAnthropic\n\nThe phrase “don’t edit anything yet” is doing all the work — it separates exploration from execution, so you can review the plan before any file changes.\n\nplan how to refactor the payment module to support multiple currencies. list the files you would change, but don’t edit anything yet\n\nSwap in: the module and the goal.\n\n04\n\nWrite tests, run them, fix what fails\n\nAnthropic\n\nBundling write + run + fix into one ask means the model iterates on its own instead of stopping after the first draft.\n\nwrite tests for app/parsers/feed.py, run them, and fix any failures\n\nSwap in: the file or module path.\n\n05\n\nReview your own changes before committing\n\nAnthropic\n\nA pre-commit second pair of eyes that reads full files, not just the diff — it catches the kind of issue a quick self-review misses.\n\nreview my uncommitted changes and flag anything that looks risky before I commit\n\nSwap in: nothing needed; add “focus on security” if you want it narrowed.\n\n06\n\nInvestigate a production incident\n\nAnthropic\n\nNames the evidence to correlate (logs, deploys, config) rather than prescribing steps — that lets the model cross-reference sources you might not have thought to check.\n\nthe checkout endpoint started returning 500s an hour ago. check the logs, recent deploys, and config changes, then tell me the most likely cause\n\nSwap in: the symptom and rough timing. 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