11 Claude Habits That Compound Over Daily Use
The useful part is not prompt tricks, but persistent context: Projects, CLAUDE.md, styles, skills, and subagents. Worth turning into a default setup before long coding sessions.
- Put codebase context, style guides, and prior PRs into
Projectsonce. Re-pasting the same background is pure context tax. - A custom style like skeptical senior engineer changes review quality by forcing pushback instead of agreeable code comments.
- In
Claude Code,CLAUDE.mdcarries more weight than session prompts. Around 80 lines of project context can remove repeated stack explanations. - Use cheaper/faster models by task:
Sonnetas default,Opusfor architecture,Haikufor batch cleanup like tickets or emails. - Subagents fit parallel chores: run tests, inspect files, or summarize docs while the main coding thread keeps moving.