Glossary
Terms around Claude AI and prompt engineering explained. From skill to system prompt.
Claude Skill
A Claude Skill is a prepared workflow that gives Claude a role, a goal, a process and quality rules. Instead of freely formulating a prompt, you pick a skill and add only your context.
Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering is the practice of formulating instructions to Claude so the results are as precise and usable as possible. It includes role definition, providing context, structuring and examples.
Claude Projects
Claude Projects are named workspaces in Claude where you can store context, files and instructions. Each project has its own system prompt and its own knowledge base.
Claude Code
Claude Code is a command-line tool from Anthropic that brings Claude directly into the terminal. It can read, write and edit files, run code and integrate into Git workflows.
System Prompt
A system prompt is the top-level instruction to Claude that defines role, behavior and rules. It applies to the entire chat and overrides individual user requests.