It's never the prompt
The prompting turns out to be the least interesting part of my Claude Code setup, and most of what's actually doing the work is a handful of files I wrote once and then stopped thinking about.
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The prompting turns out to be the least interesting part of my Claude Code setup, and most of what's actually doing the work is a handful of files I wrote once and then stopped thinking about.
I came back to a project after a year away and found three notes I'd left myself in one confident voice, two of which saved me an afternoon and one of which cost me one.
Two Claude skills at work cover the two ways a Shopify client repo starts life, and having written both I'm fairly sure the numbered steps are the part nobody needed written down. The four or five places where the instruction is to stop are what earn the disk space.
I've spent about a decade watching the careful work get cut first whenever a date slips, so I know exactly what the safety people are worried about, and I still come down on going faster.