Claude Project Setup

An AI coding agent is only as good as the context it starts with — drop it into a repo with no orientation and it guesses at your architecture, conventions, and commands. A good CLAUDE.md (or equivalent project-context file) is the onboarding doc that turns flailing into fluency. This builds yours: the architecture and conventions the agent needs, the commands to run, the guardrails on what not to touch, and a habit to keep it current.

What This Skill Produces

• A structured CLAUDE.md — the sections an agent actually needs: what the project is, architecture/layout, key conventions, the commands (build/test/lint/run), and the do-nots
• The right altitude — enough to orient the agent fast, not an exhaustive doc it drowns in; signal over completeness
• Guardrails — what the agent must not touch, how to run tests before claiming done, and where irreversible actions need a human
• Convention capture — the implicit rules a human learns over months (naming, patterns, where things go) made explicit
• A commands block — the exact commands to build, test, lint, and run, so the agent verifies its own work
• A maintenance habit — updating it as the project changes so it doesn't drift into wrong

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