Claude (initial)

Claude is an alignment-driven assistant trained with Constitutional AI so it follows rules that prioritize helpful, safe, and non-toxic responses. It maintains context across conversations, produces clean rewrites and summaries, and answers with a calm, cooperative tone while explaining limits when needed. The model is primarily text-in text-out, supports basic tool use via structured prompts, and works well for email drafting, knowledge lookup, and light coding. It set the template for later Claude models that added more depth, longer context, and stronger reasoning while keeping the same safety principles.