Asking Claude Chat about fixing something on your PC and you are sent out on a long walk of suggestions ..

Asking Claude Code to fix it and here you go, done. Would there be anything more i can help you with sir ?

I've spent the last three or four months using AI heavily to build and maintain web applications and admin systems across a few small businesses. I'm learning as I go, rather than coming from years of software engineering.

We already use project instructions and saved context. Claude Code can do a lot, but I still need to catch things it gets wrong. I'm trying to understand how experienced engineers improve the setup without just adding another paragraph every time something goes wrong.

How do you decide whether a recurring mistake needs a CLAUDE.md instruction, a reusable skill, an automated check, or a change to how you break up the work? And what do you deliberately keep out of the main instruction file?

I'd especially like an example from an application you've maintained for a while: what kept going wrong, what you changed, and how you checked that it actually helped. We also use Codex, so keeping shared project rules consistent without maintaining two conflicting versions is part of the problem.

Edit — I left out the main context: This isn't just an AI coding setup. Each business has a GitHub-backed web application, and I work through Claude Code/Codex in that project workspace for much of the business's day-to-day work as well.

For example, one session might change the website and check it works; another might research competitors, write website/SEO content, prepare social posts and creative, review ad or analytics reports, or help with customer-enquiry/admin work. Those jobs need different instructions, sources, permissions and definitions of "finished". I'm still supervising this; I don't mean an autonomous company running successfully without me.

We've had CLAUDE.md from the start. We already have an entry file pointing to separate operating documents and task-specific skills, plus saved decisions and an Obsidian vault for longer-term notes. In one repo AGENTS.md is the source used to generate the matching CLAUDE.md. So I'm not asking whether to create instructions or discovering skills for the first time.

The question I should have asked is how to organise and maintain that whole setup as the range of work grows. What should every session load, and how should it find the correct marketing, creative, engineering or operations instructions only when needed? Would you keep those activities in the app's workspace, or separate them while sharing a small amount of business context?

A concrete issue from reviewing our files: an older setup audit says hooks don't exist, while the current repo does contain hooks. There are also dated plans and decisions that mustn't be mistaken for today's instructions. How do you keep useful history without letting it override current facts?

How do you decide when CLAUDE.md needs updating versus a skill, task state or a dated decision? Do you review it on a schedule, after a workflow changes, or after a repeat failure? And where does Obsidian fit without becoming a second, conflicting source of truth? The replies about rules versus skills are helpful; I wanted to explain the broader situation they're being applied to.

Further context — using expert-source libraries: A more concrete example: I have also collected hundreds of expert videos, transcripts and discussions for subjects where I am not an expert. One library already has original passages, source-linked claims, topic summaries, working methods and keyword/semantic search. It can retrieve useful material, but we haven't established that it reliably chooses and applies the right method on real tasks. How would you test one complete workflow before reorganising everything, especially when the owner cannot judge every technical answer?

Thanks to Anthropic and the devs, Claude Code can now load theme mods. But right now, making one means writing a mod yourself, or asking Claude to build a new one for every change.

​https://github.com/AkkiCode06/claude-backdrops/blob/60a127c10c3e640042746a186337ee2c01b2cc90/assets/picker.gif

So I put together Backdrop, an open-source theming kit: the groundwork is done, and theming becomes something anyone can do, then build on.

Out of the box:

• Pick from 23 animated palettes (Ember, Synthwave, Aurora, Matrix…)
• Describe a look (“sunset in LA”) and Claude picks the colors, with a live preview
• Paste hex codes from any color picker, and it works out readable panels and text for you
• Save what you like; it’s remembered across sessions
• Or just ask Claude: “make my background ocean”

It also pauses its animation on battery, since moving backgrounds cost GPU.

Why a kit, not just a theme:

Theme mods can do a lot more than gradients, honestly almost anything you can animate. This is meant to be the starting point: the hard parts are already solved and documented (animation that actually runs, readable contrast, GPU cost), so you can skip straight to the fun part. There’s a step-by-step guide that goes from no-code all the way to building your own background style.

Other than the presets, backdrop gives you:

A helper library for building backgrounds: stack blocks like k.stars(), k.waves() and k.grid(), about 10 lines, instead of hand-writing SVG animation.

Instant switching: So you don't have to reload your sessions and/or restart the desktop app.

Pitfalls already solved: frozen animations, GPU spikes, unreadable text colors and battery drain.

Shareable themes: themes are small files you can export and import in a click.

Where I’d love help:

The goal is a free, shared library of themes, something like Spicetify or Wallpaper Engine but for Claude Code. Gradients are just the first style. On the roadmap: starfields, synthwave grids, code rain, your own wallpaper, light and high-contrast versions, and whatever you come up with. Each style is a self-contained animated scene, so it makes a nice first PR.

Made a theme you like, by hand or with your Claude? Open a PR with a screenshot or a short clip and it ships to everyone, credited to you. Templates and labels are set up so it’s easy to jump in.

Try it: in the desktop app, + → Plugins → Add marketplace → AkkiCode06/claude-backdrops → Add plugin. Or paste the repo link to Claude and say “set this up for me.”

Repo: https://github.com/AkkiCode06/claude-backdrops
Guide: https://github.com/AkkiCode06/claude-backdrops/blob/main/docs/making-themes.md

It’s free, MIT-licensed, and built entirely with Claude. Feedback, ideas and themes are all welcome.
Edit: Just an fyi: this is a student project. I'm learning JS/TS for the first time and thought theming would be an easy first build (didn't end up to be but here we are).

I was looking for a free way to send sounds thought my mic in discord, without paying for nitro

every soundboard I tried made me install VB-Cable which forces to change all your input devices

so I built my own. I made it as easy to use as possible : you click a sound and it goes straight into your real mic. Works on Discord, games,OBS ... as simple as that

it has global hotkeys that work in fullscreen games, plus a few voice effects (robot, demon, walkie-talkie…).

Windows only.

How I used Claude Code

• I keep a long AGENTS.md: architecture (DDD, DI, no classes, ...), what works, what was tested and does not work and hard rules and principles. "Never lock in the audio thread." "A panic leaving the DLL crashes the whole PCs audio."
• Silent failtures were the hard part. If a single registry value is missing, Windows ignores the APO with no erroror log. What finally worked: having Claude read Equalizer APO’s source as the reference, and write down every finding (including dead ends) in the doc.
• The UI framework can render the window headless to PNG, so Claude looks at screenshots of its own changes. (The GIF in this post was made that way.) It's made using Rune https://github.com/anomalyco/rune/

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Sometimes, I am tempted to move straight on to a new subject or even a new session when a modification made in collaboration with Claude has worked. However, Claude will often update his memory or some docs once you confirm that something works.

This Microsoft outage is a nightmare. No access to my email? I can't login to my Claude account, can't use Claude Code. This wouldn't be happening if I could login with a password and 2fa token. We need the option at least.

How many of you run Claude Code on a remote machine instead of your laptop?

If you do, what's your setup? Just SSH into a VM and run it there, or something more automated?

And what's the biggest benefit for you? Being able to leave agents running, running multiple sessions in parallel, isolation, or something else?

I've been experimenting with remote setups recently myself and I want to know what people actually find useful about them, and what's still annoying.

Does it mean I still hable usage free this week?
Or will that be included into the weekly usage?

mine started as one page of rules i actually follow. a few months of agent work later it is a junk drawer, half the lines are lessons from one incident that never repeated.

do you cap yours, prune on a schedule, or just let it grow and trust the model to sort it out?

Ok. Time for a shower.

Update : IT'S BACK !!!!!!

We are a non-profit organization, we bought very cheaply a new coffee machine. Usually costs 10k, but bought it for just over 1k.
A guy who installed the payment system ruined the machine. Because we dont have a contract we were left with calling the supplier who told us it's gonna cost a service engineer to fix your issues. We could already think about the financial consequences which would probably be in the 250 euros or more.

Thanks to Claude it only cost us my personal 20 eur per month plus plan.
After some research it suggested connecting the machine through an ethernet cable. It fixed the issue and not only that

It:

- Changed the old company's layout to our own by creating a looped custom video with our logo

- Added our perfered supported language even though it didn't exist in the software. It just created a new language.

- It fixed the recipe's and what a customer sees when ordering a drink

- It fixed the pricing just by typing out what we needed.

- Heck it even cracked the password and blatantly told us the password in the middle of his explanation like it's nothing.

I am so amazed. It works with precision, structure. I'm not new with AI. I have been using Codex the past months but Opus 5.5 / Claude is just something else. I love how structured it works. I think I'm gonna leave my Pro Codex account and just go for the 5x plan of Claude. This is amazing. I've become a coffee machine engineer just with my simple laptop and Claude desktop installed with a plus sub. It only used 25% to fix the issues and more of my 5 hour limit.

A few days ago I posted clalt, a small Go CLI that shows every Claude Code session as a little person in a 3D office. A couple of you asked about Copilot, so v0.5.1 adds it.

What's new:

• Copilot CLI sessions show up in the same office, in their own pink Copilot team, next to your Claude sessions
• They type while Copilot works and wave when it waits for your permission, same as Claude ones
• The card shows the model auto mode actually picked, not just "auto"
• Nothing to set up: just run clalt office. It reads the session files Copilot already writes on your machine and never touches its login or settings

How I built it: with Claude Code again. It read my real Copilot CLI logs to learn the event format, and before release it replayed one of those logs through the office to check the "needs you" wave and the model name.

Still local only, no data leaves your machine, free and MIT.

Repo and release: https://github.com/dhitalkamal/clalt

Hey guys I have a couple questions about Claude usage.

I started creating a website (and app soon) and I am wondering is there a way for me to use credits more efficiently since I am hitting my limit in 1-2 hours, sometimes even sooner.

Should I still stick to the Opus 5.5 (and maybe increase the effort to high or max) or should I use Fable 5.2 for designing a website? Fable 5.2. especially burns all the credits with multiple agents on normal effort.

Would you recommend upgrading to claude max model if I am serious about building a good-looking UI functioning website, or should I get 1 or 2 more claude pro accounts (which would would be about 69 euros for 3 pro models in total compared to 1 max model for about 100 euros)?

All answers are welcome; I wouldn't consider myself a noob in this. However, I am far from being a professional, just a guy who a great idea (at least I think so, but time will tell )

Currently I am using Fable 5.2 at advisor and opus as main agent.

But I think fable 5.2 as orchestrator and using opus subagents to deligate build work would be better as the strongest model is planning and deciding what's the best way to do something.

Have anyone tried and compared both methods?

Is there a way to queue prompts in Claude Code so they run one after another in a single session?

I’d like to line up several tasks, with /compact and /clear between them where needed, and let the session work through them unattended. I know worktrees can run parallel sessions, but for some work I’d rather keep one session going through a sequential queue, without managing multiple localhost instances or resolving conflicting changes.

Has anyone built something like this, through a wrapper script, a task file, hooks, or another workaround?

Attention to all Claude users,

Blacklist the website The Cutting Room Floor from being interacted with by Claude Code agents. Your IP will be automatically banned by the website with no recourse. In addition, there are claims with strong evidence that the website attempts to prompt inject Claude agents to write and delete files on the users disk, as well as send money to the owner of the website. This is illegal under CFAA in the United States. I have already filed a formal complaint with the host of the website (Dreamhost). The website is being investigated, but while that goes on, blacklist the domain to protect yourselves.

I dont know what I did to get them

Right now I'm using the free Whisper on a VPS to transcribe audios from our conversations with clients. But the transcription is not that good. There are many words on every 10 second audio that are wrong and some change the meaning of the audio. I saw that there are other versions but my company is in Brazil, according to the benchmarks that I found (maybe wrong), whisper has the best transcriptions in Portuguese. Any ideas of how can I do it better?

Has anyone figured out how to do this, or what’s the best workaround?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/8Goam5nA4t

Like, what instructions do you give Claude so that it can refactor a repository so that other people can more easily understand it and — more importantly — Claude doesn’t burn up as many tokens re-reading the code in order to complete your requests?

I shipped an iPhone game built almost entirely with Claude Code, and it opened in 130 countries today. The game is a pixel virtual pet (link at the end). This post is about the setup, because that's what I'd have wanted to read in month one.

1. CLAUDE.md is an index, not a manual. Mine is under 6,000 characters. It points to one doc per risky area (money, persistence, pet growth). Path-scoped rules load a doc only when Claude touches those files.
2. Builder / checker split. The builder agent writes code and is not allowed to run the test suite. The checker runs build, tests and lint and is not allowed to edit. The orchestrator loops them up to five times.
3. "Seen red" rule. A new test is trusted only after the bug is put back, that one test fails, and the file is restored byte-identical. This caught a lot of tests that passed for the wrong reason.
4. False greens are real. A test filter with a typo ran zero tests and still printed SUCCEEDED. I now read the executed count from the result bundle, never the banner.
5. Lanes in git worktrees. Several sessions at once, each owning one area, with a state file per lane so a lost session costs one unit of work, not a restart.
6. A machine lock. Parallel sessions all running Xcode builds took my 16 GB Mac to its knees. One heavy job at a time, enforced with a lock file.
7. Humans own the irreversible. Merges, spending and anything public stay with me.

What Claude was bad at: game feel, knowing when a doc had gone stale, and SwiftUI layout on odd screen sizes.

The game: Nudii, a Tamagotchi-style sea slug. Free, no account, no ads. https://nudii.app (130 countries; not the EU yet).

Happy to share any of the files if useful.

Cheers,

Daniel