Claude Code
Getting more out of Anthropic’s coding agent: context, plans, rules, and subagents.
Plan Before You Prompt: Review the Plan Before Your AI Agent Touches Code
Put your coding agent in plan mode before it edits a single file. One keystroke gets you a reviewable, editable plan instead of a surprise diff.
Tip #012Keep Your Rules File Lean
Your CLAUDE.md gets loaded into every request — a bloated rules file wastes context and dilutes instructions. Here’s what belongs in it and what doesn’t.
Tip #013Give Grunt Work Its Own Agent: Subagents for Context Isolation
How Claude Code subagents isolate context — delegate noisy research to a helper agent with its own window so only the summary lands in your main thread.
Tip #014Make It Ask First: The 95%-Confidence Prompt
Stop revision loops before they start — tell Claude Code to ask clarifying questions until it’s 95% confident, then push it to name what you’re missing.
Tip #015Keep Your Context Fresh: Fighting Context Rot in Claude Code
Long Claude Code sessions quietly lose quality — context rot. Learn when to /clear, when to /compact with keep-notes, and how to watch your context percentage.