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I kept hitting the same thing. I'd describe a half-formed idea, Claude would start writing files, and the code would be fine but the idea was wrong. I'd find out 300 lines later. Grill-me by Matt Pocock is amazing and a lot of inspiration for this came from that, what I found about that skill is that is tends to be very tedious, it asks, sometimes, 5 very good questions and 30 minutiae. So I created Ideator: it takes a vague idea and restates what you said back to you first, which catches ambiguity fast. Then it interviews you. It only asks questions where different answers lead to a different product. It won't ask about a field name or a date format, it infers those and tells you what it assumed. It looks facts up in the codebase instead of asking you things you'd have to go check. It wri

Started recording my longer calls and running the transcript through Claude after. The raw auto-transcript is unreadable, but the recap I get out has replaced the notes I used to fail to take. What I ask for, in this order: Decisions made, and by whom if it's clear. Action items, one per line, with the owner. Open questions nobody actually answered. A two-line summary I can paste at the top for people who won't read the rest. The "open questions nobody answered" section is the one that keeps saving me. Meetings drift and everyone leaves assuming a thing got settled that didn't. Having it listed plainly means it goes on the next agenda instead of surfacing three weeks later. One thing I learned: tell it to leave out small talk and mark anything it's unsure about rather than guessing. Otherw

I have money in my account that expires. What prompts can I give it to use this intelligently because I have no idea... I'm not using claude much besides claude code for video editing. I don't see what Fable can do that opus 5.0 can't. Sorry if it's a dumb question submitted by /u/forsaken3400 [link] [comments]

I'm revoking Github perms on Claude Code from now on. I asked Claude with a simple prompt, "Can you check in repo X, that is available locally and up to date with main, whether that's where the configs for what CPU runner an image is compatible for, and if it does live there, change Image Y so that its compatible for Blacksmith runners on both ARM64 and Linux-Ubuntu/AMD64." I tab out and work on other things. Tab back in after 10 minutes and noticed its used 80k tokens, still running. Bit weird. 15 minutes later it has done the following: - Couldn't find the image compatability config files in the Repo I specified. - Did find a list in a yaml file of all repo's that have images that Repo X consumes from. - Cloned locally every single Repo on that list from Github Enterprise (over 150 Micro

Claude’s documentation says: *“The Microsoft 365 connector requires a Microsoft Entra tenant tied to a Microsoft Business plan. Personal Microsoft accounts (such as @outlook.com or @hotmail.com addresses) can't be used to connect.”* Claude desktop can use my browser to access Outlook and use the mouse and screen viewing on the desktop. It says it’s less efficient, though, and that seems right since a bulk parsing task that would’ve been fairly cheap and fast with an API delivering structured data is much slower and expensive when using the browser. I haven’t compared to desktop manipulation. Is there a more efficient way to work with emails in Outlook and other Microsoft products that isn’t available out of the box? submitted by /u/One_Perception_7979 [link] [comments]

We have a monorepo with a root CLAUDE.md and nested ones ( service/CLAUDE.md , workers/CLAUDE.md , infra/CLAUDE.md ). I was not sure the nested files were really loaded, so I checked one month of my own session transcripts: 480 main sessions and about 1,200 subagent transcripts. What I found A nested CLAUDE.md is loaded only when Claude uses the native Read tool on a file in that folder. Bash does not trigger it. cat , sed -n , grep , and Python heredoc edits load nothing. This was a small problem before. It became a big one around August 18 (v2.1.229). Since then, auto mode and bypass-permissions mode add this instruction to the session: Do your work through the Bash tool wherever it can accomplish the job: read files with cat, head, or sed -n ... rather than using the dedicated Read, Edi

I keep seeing posts about the 5-hour limit getting eaten in an hour or two, and I hit exactly that last week, so I dug into what was burning it. It turned out to be one thing, it is documented, there is a one-line fix, and I've got before and after numbers. TL;DR: on a subscription, your main conversation's prompt cache lives 1 hour, but every sub-agent's cache lives 5 minutes . Any tool call longer than that, such as a test run, build, or git hook, expires it, and the sub-agent's next request re-writes its entire context, often hundreds of thousands of tokens, at the expensive cache-write rate. Fix: "subagentPromptCacheTtl": "1h" in ~/.claude/settings.json , and do not let sub-agents sit inside long commands. It cut my cache writes by about 75% for the same work, measured below. The mecha

BC I'm a dork, I have my Claude always print out the tool calls it has used, and to my surprise, I saw " web_search 3x, web_search_fast 1x". This is cutting-edge news reporting, because Google searching shows nothing about it. Anyone know what is up with it? I mean, it's obviously "fast" and likely cheaper than web_search , but it's interesting it came out silently. No press release notes. Here is how Fable describes it (which is coming from its system prompt): web_search_fast is one of the two web-search functions I have in this session. It's a lightweight, cheaper, quicker variant of web_search : same interface (a single query string), returning up to 10 results, each with a title, URL, and a short page excerpt. It's meant for straightforward lookups — reference facts, official pages, do

I'm a software engineer with 10 years of experience. Been using Claude Code for a bit over a year now its great. I love the flexibility to use it for anything from cleaning up my mac, video editing, vibe coding ideas and of course to help with my actual software projects. But it feels like its missing something for software. Software is continuous and context really matters. - I've tried using MD files to track a todo list and claude messes up the structure, forgets to update it etc. - I've tried asking claude to update claude.md every-time we have a new feature or i make a long term decision, but again maintaining it is a pain. - Session auto compact.. is a pain. I have my max tokens set to 300k but when i hit that auto-compact point i have to scramble to re-explain what the project is, w

Hello dear, I'm planning to buy extra Claude usage credit but I don't measure what 50$ can allow me to do as a workload. Can anyone who works on a large codebase with Claude help me measure how long this can take ? I've Claude Max x20 and I often reach my usage limit of the week after ~5 days. The plan is to switch completely to a Chinese model if this doesn't allow me to work at least for 2 weeks with Fable 😅 Thanks in advance for your help. submitted by /u/Salty-Gear841 [link] [comments]

I use Fable to handle all design and verification work, and it hands off to Opus to do stuff that is theoretically mostly mindless. Fable produces amazingly detailed design documents for Opus to implement. Unfortunately Opus still manages to screw that up all the time. Asking Fable WTF is taking so long: “You're right, and I found the sink. The import itself finished a while ago. The worker then spent the two hours rerunning the station capture tests twenty times against specification, and kept retrying instead of moving on. I've told it to stop, commit what it has, with the captures dropped unless asked for.” The chasm between Fable and Opus competence is staggering. Orders of magnitude. Come on Anthropic, give us a better Opus. It doesn’t matter how brilliant Fable is if the only afforda

I use Claude a lot for coding and architecture, and the thing I find hardest to judge is whether my approach is actually good or whether I’ve just put it in the prompt. If I explain my solution and ask for alternatives, it usually comes back to mine. Even when I explicitly ask it to challenge me. Maybe I’m right sometimes. But then what did I get from asking? I’ve started giving Codex the same problem without showing it my solution or Claude’s answer. That gives me another starting point, although now I’m the one deciding between two convincing explanations. I’m an architect, talking through trade-offs is a big part of why I use these tools, so this bothers me more than a coding mistake I can catch with a test. Has Claude changed your mind about a technical decision recently? What did it p

Is it just me, or did the back-and-forth arrow buttons on Claude.ai browser disappear today? The ones you use to cycle between old and new retried/regenerated responses (i.e., < 1/3 >)? I checked on my phone's browser, and it's the same there. submitted by /u/kscheckmate [link] [comments]

I’m new to Claude and don’t really know much about using AI for studying yet. I’m currently studying Business Administration and I’d like to use Claude as effectively as possible. Are there any specific settings, projects, prompts or workflows you would recommend? For example for uploading lecture notes, creating summaries, explaining topics, making flashcards or testing myself. I’m especially interested in how you have set up Claude as a student and if there’s anything I should do or configure from the beginning to get the most out of it. submitted by /u/TodayHot6421 [link] [comments]

I’m a lawyer and use AI daily for work, mainly to help draft legal opinions, review documents, create spreadsheets, and handle similar tasks. I currently use ChatGPT Plus, which I’ve customized a bit, and overall it works well for what I need. However, I recently tried Claude and found that it performed significantly better for some of my work, so I’m considering switching. My main concern is usage limits. I’ve seen quite a few complaints about how quickly Claude consumes tokens, but most of them seem to come from software developers and engineers who use it heavily for coding, which I assume is much more token-intensive. For the kind of work I do, would the Pro plan generally be enough? Or do these more basic/non-coding tasks also tend to use up the limits quickly? submitted by /u/plotdev

I was working on an API service catalog automation with Opus 5 (High), when I asked it to give me next steps to complete a feature, it asked me to merge 3 PRs, when we originally in the plan had only one + one in the flight to test. When I asked it about which the third PR is, it gave me this reply 🤐😬🤐😬🤐😬🤐 P.S. I am using Claude Code in VSCode. submitted by /u/Royal-Lead8456 [link] [comments]

One of the basic features of an AI chatbot that's been available for years is not available inside a Claude update that's rolling out. Pretty saddening, Claude's branching was one of its best quirks, and was better than ChatGPT and Gemini's branching systems imo (although both of them are better at forking into an entirely new chat so fair play about that one). Hoping that this is temporary and it's actually just a "current" limitation that will get fixed down the line, because overwriting entire chats with a simple edit is something I hate in Gemini for example. submitted by /u/ZedKGamingHUN [link] [comments]

JPMorgan is rolling out a new environment called Devspace for some engineers using Claude Code. The interesting part isn’t really the $2,000 monthly spending cap. It’s how they’re handling agent permissions. Instead of letting Claude run directly on an employee machine with access to credentials and internal systems, Devspace runs it in a containerized AWS environment. The idea is that the agent has an identity, but basically no standing entitlements. Access gets granted based on what the task actually needs. This feels like a pretty realistic answer to the enterprise Claude Code problem. You probably don’t need to trust the agent enough to give it everything. You need an environment where it can be useful while the infrastructure limits the blast radius when it gets something wrong. Just

I usually use Codex to keep Opus in line, and I thought, nah, I can jockey this pony, and it went well to begin with until the first agent started getting a little long in the tooth, so we agreed to part ways and call it quits, and it gave me a handoff prompt for the next agent (reminds me of a girlfriend I had once, but that's a different story) .. the old agent was Opus Low, and I forgot that new sessions start with High by default ..... 5 hours later https://preview.redd.it/el2qay2fr2qh1.png?width=1892&format=png&auto=webp&s=d25984828c4ebc0e1fe21c6618ac27b963ed7a3d submitted by /u/crankbird [link] [comments]

Hi r/ClaudeAI , I’ve been building a custom toolkit of Skills to make Claude's autonomous runs more reliable and its output less generic. Instead of relying on one massive system prompt, I split these into 7 distinct skills that trigger exactly when needed. If you're building your own custom instructions or using Claude Code / agentic workflows, here is my complete setup and the core rules I use for each. Verify Before Done ( verify-before-done.skill ) The Problem: "No error" is not the same as "done." Claude often hallucinates success just because a tool didn't throw an exception. The Rules: Completeness: Walk back through every section or tab to ensure it's actually filled, not just a placeholder. Visual Match: Look at the actual rendered output or screenshot to ensure it makes sense. Co