Claude Code Thoughts, Patterns & Workflows.

Jan 03, 2026

Initial notes on working with Claude Code.

Thoughts

  • I need better patterns in managing my own context as well as better patterns for managing agent/subagent context.
  • The cost of refactor is very cheap now. This can change how our iterative rounds on software products look
  • The very begining & end of these AI implemented projects require the closest human attention.

Patterns

  • In my user-scoped CLAUDE.md I inform the agents to use {project_root}/llm_memory for working docs, plans, etc.
    • This helps prolong working sessions. I can often skip compact when context is low and just point to relevant docs in the folder.
    • warning this does require pruning. I have a / command guiding the orchestration llm to prune, but the trick is remembering to invoke it :)

Workflows

  • Achieve longer sessions with projects subdir within llm_memory folder