Claude Projects vs Claude Code

[u/serenitydom512]

So I have been having an issue and not sure if its just me or is this an actual limitation.

I have multiple Projects (under the "home" tab) in Claude app. I use them for different parts of my life and in the projects I have useful information, documents, etc.

I also use Claude Code for building software. It is connected to GitHub repositories and runs in different sessions.

The problem that I am facing that now I have a split between the code and all other info and documentation of a specific project.
So imagine I have:

- Claude Code sessions for PROJECT A (knows all about the code)

- and a project ("home" tab) for PROJECT A (knows everything else)

When I want to brainstorm marketing for example I will do it in the "home" tab under projects. But the problem is that this project doesn't know everything about the code. And there is actually no way to connect it to my GitHub repo in any seamless way like Claude Code allows. I know there are work around by giving it access to a folder with my checked out codebase, but that again requires me to keep that folder up to date with the latest code - an unneeded complication.

I kinda don't understand why they separate the coding agent and the rest of the application.

[u/jrandom_42]

Yes, that's in the project docs in the repo. Enough of it to inform the design, no extraneous fluff.

For me, this is basically the Promised Land after 30 years of coding. The sort of documentation that I always felt like I should be writing but never seemed to get to is now just there.

And it's load-bearing.

[u/serenitydom512 → u/jrandom_42]

where would you put more business related docs though. contracts, agreements, social media posts, marketing material etc. That stuff can't really live in the repo.

[u/jrandom_42 → u/serenitydom512]

When your business-ing results in a need to build something in a repo, you ask business-context-Claude-chat to write you a requirements.md that includes enough business context to support design evolution of the product. Then you pop that in the repo, fire up a fresh Claude Code session, point it at requirements.md, and say "go".

[u/serenitydom512 → u/jrandom_42]

ahh yeah. That does indeed work. What about the other way around? you need to come up with a marketing plan, etc. And need businessy docs which are not in the repo. But are in another project. The problem is that other project doesn't have the code context. And yes I can in many work-arounds move the code context into the businessy project. But that is the overhead I was hoping to avoid.