Claude Code Field Guide
A practical guide to Claude Code workflows: skills as project memory, subagents for parallel development, and the patterns that make AI-assisted coding actually work.
Tagged: productivity
8 articles
Claude Code Field Guide: CLI Orchestration
How to use Claude Code as a single pane for development: code, test, commit, deploy, and review—all from one terminal session.
Claude Code Field Guide: Diagrams and Documentation
How to use Claude Code to generate diagrams, maintain living documentation, and iterate visually with screenshots.
Claude Code Field Guide: Environment and Efficiency
How to optimize Claude Code token usage and manage multi-project environments with direnv.
Claude Code Field Guide: Skills
How to use Claude Code skills as project memory: from simple instruction files to complex multi-file skill architectures that capture domain knowledge.
Claude Code Field Guide: Subagents
How to use Claude Code subagents for parallel development, research isolation, and fresh-context code reviews without polluting your main conversation.
Claude Code Field Guide: Working Patterns
How to work effectively with Claude Code: plan mode, trusting your gut, requesting research, and asking Claude to challenge your assumptions.
Forcing Claude Code Skills to Actually Activate
Claude Code skills are great in theory but often stay dormant. Here's a hook-based solution that forces explicit skill evaluation, inspired by Scott Spence's brilliant approach.