---
id: "concept-super-prompts"
type: "concept"
source_timestamps: ["00:11:10", "00:11:58"]
tags: ["prompting", "terminology"]
related: ["concept-claude-skills", "concept-prompt-dependency"]
definition: "A massive, highly structured package of instructions and context that handles the 'heavy lift' of a complex task, eliminating the need for repetitive manual prompting."
sources: ["s40-super-prompts"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s40-super-prompts"
originDay: 40
---
# Super Prompts

## Definition

A massive, highly structured package of instructions and context that handles the "heavy lift" of a complex task, eliminating the need for repetitive manual prompting.

## Relationship to Skills

A "super prompt" is the *underlying architecture* of a [[concept-claude-skills|Claude Skill]]. The skill is the user-facing wrapper; the super prompt is the dense Markdown payload that actually steers the model.

At minimum, a super prompt encodes:

- **Context** — domain knowledge, user history, business specifics
- **Constraints** — what the model must and must not do
- **Formatting rules** — the exact shape of the output
- **Heuristics** — how to weigh tradeoffs

## The 10x Lever

By packaging all of this into a file, the user no longer types it out. They simply say *"help me with X using my skill"* and the super prompt guides the model in the background. This is what the speaker calls a 10x lever — see [[claim-skills-provide-10x-lever]] and [[quote-10x-lever]].

## Cross-Platform Implication

Because a super prompt is just Markdown, it travels. The same super prompt that powers a Claude skill can be uploaded into [[entity-chatgpt-d40]] or [[entity-gemini-d40]] to produce comparable results — see [[claim-skills-are-platform-agnostic]].