How to create an SOP in Claude

1. Do it once manually — just get Claude to complete the task end-to-end
2. Ask Claude to summarise what it just did
3. Ask it to turn that summary into a prompt
4. Run the task again using that prompt
5. Refine the steps and set permissions
6. Let it build tools for automation + coding
7. Update the prompt to incorporate the new steps
8. Add verification — it should check the output of each step
9. Check: is the output satisfactory?
10. Create the final prompt
11. Define a stop condition — when should it halt, escalate, or ask for help?
12. Schedule it with an agentic workflow
13. Let it run repeatedly — then revisit, refine, and re-encode as needed