Claude Code Without Coding · Section 7 · Resources
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Arun Nagarathanam · 5 Oct 2026 Guide · 51 of 72 in this course 
Lecture 7.1 · Your CLAUDE.md File
Re-Explaining Yourself Every Morning
Files and links
- How Claude remembers your project (Claude Code docs)https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
- Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt (Y Combinator talk)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyPCVqFUyDo
- Claude Code overviewhttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview
Lecture 7.2 · Your Project's Memory
Where Do Your Cost Rules Actually Go?
The preview is not using the stylesheet properly, so why don't you invoke a local server and show me the preview correctly inside the browser.
Never rewrite a whole file when changing a few lines would do the job.
Never tell me a job is finished until you have run the site and seen it still works.
Files and links
- How Claude remembers your project (Claude Code docs)https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
- Claude Code commands referencehttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/commands
- Claude desktop app, Code tabhttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop
Lecture 7.3 · Project vs Personal CLAUDE.md
Which Rules Follow You Everywhere?
Files and links
- How Claude remembers your project (Claude Code docs)https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
Lecture 7.4 · Auto Memory
What Is Claude Writing Down About You?
Files and links
- Auto memory, in the Claude Code docshttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory#auto-memory
Lecture 7.5 · Draft It, Then Check Its Guesses
Can Claude Write CLAUDE.md For You?
Is CLAUDE.md current and updated, or did you not check that at all?
Files and links
- Claude Code commands reference (/init)https://code.claude.com/docs/en/commands
- Superwhisper, voice dictation apphttps://superwhisper.com
- Wispr Flow, voice dictation apphttps://wisprflow.ai
- Claude model configurationhttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config
- Gemini models (Google AI for Developers)https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models
- Study: Evaluating AGENTS.md, are repository context files helpful for coding agents?https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988
Lecture 7.6
What Actually Breaks a Rule in Your CLAUDE.md?
Go through my CLAUDE.md rule by rule. For every rule, put a row in a table saying whether what you just did followed it, broke it, or did not apply. Use a checkbox. Do not skip any rule.
Files and links
- Best practices for Claude Codehttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices
- Study: How Many Instructions Can LLMs Follow at Once? (IFScale)https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11538
- Study: Instruction Adherence in Coding Agent Configuration Fileshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10039
- Claude model configurationhttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config
Lecture 7.7 · Onboarding, Not Configuring
How Much Should the File Explain?
Files and links
- How Claude remembers your project (Claude Code docs)https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
Lecture 7.8 · Loading vs Reading Context
Why Does Claude Skim Your File?
When you finish a change, tell me in one plain sentence what you changed. Never use a bulleted list.
Files and links
- Effective context engineering for AI agents (Anthropic)https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
- Study: NoLiMa, long-context evaluation beyond literal matchinghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05167
Lecture 7.9 · Two Checks You Can Run
How Do You Know Your CLAUDE.md Is Working?
Every time you reply to me, give me a table with 3 columns: what is done, what is next, and what you need from me.
I want you to act as an award-winning copywriter and read the entire site line by line, then modify the copy so that anyone looking at this portfolio cannot resist hiring me to do their project. Also analyze the code base entirely, and simplify the code wherever possible without affecting the functionality.
Files and links
- Claude Code commands reference (/memory, /context)https://code.claude.com/docs/en/commands
Lecture 7.10 · AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md
The Other Filename Every Other AI Tool Reads
The AGENTS.md file in the root folder of this project is used by other AI tools. I want you to reference that file in CLAUDE.md, so whenever a new session starts, Claude Code reads AGENTS.md as well.
Can you tell me my house rules?
Files and links
- AGENTS.md: an open format for AI coding agentshttps://agents.md
- OpenAI Codexhttps://learn.chatgpt.com/codex
- Hermes Agent (Nous Research)https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/
Lecture 7.11 · Cut It Down to Yours
How Long Should Your CLAUDE.md Be?
I want you to edit and organise the CLAUDE.md file. Anything about how I like to work, or anything that will be true for the foreseeable future, not only today but tomorrow or next month or a year from now, for as long as this project is live, keep that inside CLAUDE.md. If anything could change frequently, put it in a notes.md file, and reference that file in CLAUDE.md, so that only when you need it do you go and look. Otherwise, let us not hog my memory or the context.
What about the file list (what is in this project)? Even that can change, so move that as well. And anything in the accessibility notes or in the steps for putting the site online that will not still apply a few months from now, while this project is live, you can move that too.
Files and links
The script says Anthropic's guidance is to keep it under 2 screens. The verified extract found the docs page says to target under 200 lines and did not find the 2 screens wording. Followed the script here.
- CLAUDE.md Compactor Skill (web page)https://aruntastic.com/resources/library/claude-code/claude-md-compactor-skill/
- Study: Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing?https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11095
- How Claude remembers your project (Claude Code docs)https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
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