instruction manual

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Last month, Anthropic published a roughly 30,000-word instruction manual that Askell created to teach Claude how to act in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

England had a new toy but were reading from the wrong instruction manual.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025

It’s a cultural touchstone for the centuries-old witches, an instruction manual for navigating the road and an infectious tune that’s become an earworm since the season premiere last month.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

Watching the Oscars doesn’t usually require an instruction manual.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024

A machine drawing with an instruction manual that told him what to do.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy