AI & Us / ChatGPT → Claude
Switch to Claude.
Switch to Claude.
Keep your context.
Bring your preferences, projects and routines with you. Start in ChatGPT, then take the file it creates to Claude.
ChatGPT
for_claude.mdClaude
One prompt to gather your context and help rebuild your setup, step by step.
Your switching prompt
Start in ChatGPT.
Copy the complete prompt below. Both parts are included.
- Paste into ChatGPT. Use the account that knows you and send the prompt. Open ChatGPT ↗
- Save your file. Download
for_claude.md. Read it, correct anything outdated and fill any gaps. - Upload it to Claude. Attach the file in a new Claude chat and send it. The file asks Claude to help rebuild your setup one step at a time. Open Claude ↗
If ChatGPT gives you text instead of a file, copy that full response into Claude.
Give it a quick read before you move.
ChatGPT can only include information it can access. Add anything it marks as missing, and keep only the details you want to share with Claude.
Read or manually copy the full prompt
Send everything below to ChatGPT first. The instructions for Claude are already included.
I'm switching to Claude and I want it to know me as well as you do. Make me one downloadable file called for_claude.md that I can attach to Claude. Claude should be able to read it and start helping me with nothing else from me.
The file has two parts.
PART 1: Put this text at the very top of the file, word for word, between the lines:
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Hi Claude. I just moved over from ChatGPT. This file has everything ChatGPT knew about me, plus how I had it set up. Please help me rebuild my setup in Claude.
1. Start by telling me, in 3 or 4 sentences, what you learned about me, so I know the file worked.
2. Map my setup to Claude. For each piece of my ChatGPT setup (custom instructions, projects, custom GPTs, connected apps, features, repeat workflows), tell me what to use in Claude instead: profile preferences, memory, Projects, project instructions, Skills, connectors, styles, or something else. If Claude has no match, say so and suggest the closest workaround.
3. Give me a setup plan, most useful first.
4. Walk me through it one step at a time. For each step, tell me exactly where to click and give me the text to paste. Wait for me to say "done" before the next step.
5. Rewrite anything that was written for ChatGPT (instructions, GPT prompts) so it works well in Claude.
6. Only suggest features that are available on my plan. If you're not sure, ask me.
7. Ask me any questions listed at the end of this file whenever they come up naturally.
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PART 2: Below that, write a complete profile of me using everything you know: my saved memories, our past chats, and anything you've picked up along the way. Use these headings:
1. About me: what I do, where I live, what my days look like
2. My people: family, friends, and anyone I mention a lot (names, ages, how they're connected to me, important details)
3. Work and business: what I do, my brand, my audience, the platforms I use, what's working, what isn't
4. What I'm working on right now: each project and where it stands
5. My goals: this year and long term
6. How I like you to talk to me: tone, length, formatting, words I love or hate
7. What I ask you for help with most
8. What to never do: mistakes I've corrected and things I don't like
9. My ChatGPT setup, so I can rebuild it:
- Custom instructions: copy them word for word
- Projects: for each one, the name, what it's for, its instructions word for word, and the files I uploaded
- Custom GPTs: the ones I built (name, what it does, instructions, files) and the ones I use from others (name and what I use it for)
- Connected apps and connectors (like Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar) and what I use each one for
- Features I use: image generation, voice, deep research, agent, scheduled tasks, canvas, anything else, and what I use each one for
- Prompts and workflows I repeat often, written out so I can reuse them
10. Questions for me: 5 questions that would fill in the gaps
Rules:
- Work through one heading at a time. Before you write each section, look back through our past chats for that topic only. Don't skim everything at once.
- Include every one of my saved memories, word for word.
- Use bullet points. Be specific. Use real names, numbers, and examples, not general statements.
- If something might be out of date, add "(check)" next to it.
- Don't guess or make anything up. If you're not sure, leave it out.
- For section 9, if you can't see something (like a project's instructions or a GPT's settings), write "I can't see this, copy it from settings" instead of guessing.
- This should be long. Take as much space as you need.
- When you're done, give me the file to download. If you can't make a file, put the whole thing (Part 1 and Part 2) in one code block so I can copy it in one click.