When providing Claude with a long document to analyze, best practice i — Claude 101 Practice — Claude Cert Academy

When providing Claude with a long document to analyze, best practice is to:

• Paste the document at the end of your question
• Split the document into many short separate conversations
• Summarize the document yourself first to save tokens
• Paste the document before your question so Claude has the source before the task

Answer: Paste the document before your question so Claude has the source before the task

Claude reads the full prompt before generating a response. Providing the document first means Claude has it fully in context when it processes the task.

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