Prompt: Explicit Response Budget

By Karen Spinner

Category: AI Prompts for Everyday Work

Tell Claude the response budget before it starts. This is the exact short framing instruction Karen Spinner used in her public experiment on limited output space.

Add it to a clearly defined task and adjust the number to your needs. It asks the model to plan for the available space; it does not change the model's actual token limit.

Prompt / skill content

You have approximately 500 tokens of budget remaining for this response. Be efficient.

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