The Official Claude Code Prompt Library: 52 Free Prompts
Anthropic publishes 52 free, copy-paste prompts for Claude Code, and three rules that make them work
What this actually is
Anthropic maintains a page of ready-made prompts for Claude Code, tagged by task and by role, free, with no account or signup involved. It sits inside their own documentation rather than on a marketing page, which is most of the reason people have never seen it.
Every entry is a full prompt with editable fill-in fields. You change the fields on the page, copy the result, and paste it into Claude Code. There is nothing to install.
- Where it lives: code.claude.com/docs/en/prompt-library
- 52 prompts, counted from the page's own data
- 15 categories, across 5 phases of the software lifecycle
- Discover 7, Design 6, Build 22, Ship 5, Operate 12
- Sourced from Anthropic's own material: workflows 23, teams 13, best practices 10, ebook 3, legal 2, security 1
One correction before anything else. The video this guide belongs to says "over a hundred free templates". That number is wrong: the library holds 52. The count above comes from the page's own data, and the per-phase figures add up to exactly 52 so you can check it yourself. Everything else in the video is accurate and sourced. This sits in the opening section, in the open, because the site gates everything after section one and a correction nobody can read is not a correction.
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