Problem
You need essential information in every session without re-explaining or remembering to load it.
Pattern
Knowledge documents that auto-load when you open a session. They're always in context.
Put only your most important things here - the things you always want the AI to know. Can be scoped hierarchically:
- User level: Your preferred communication style, tools available in all conversations
- Project level: Team standards and crucial preferences
Contains: behaviors, tools, context, links - whatever is essential for each scope
Example
~/.claude/CLAUDE.md:- "Prefer simple solutions",
- "Tell me something I need to know even if I don't want to hear it",
- "use ./speak.sh tool to talk to me outloud when you warn me about issues"
project/CLAUDE.md- "Use TypeScript strict mode, all functions must have explicit return types"
- "always run tests via ./test.sh"
- links to key places in the repository
