Ask HN: What are your best practices for Claude Code?
With the recent additions of /hooks and /agents, what does your current setup look like and are there any best practices you’d recommend?
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The following workflow has given me a solid starting point multiple times:
1. > Please ask clarifying questions about {thing you want to implement} and write those into planning.md
2. > Please answer those questions with your best guesses / suggestions.
3. Review and correct the answers from Claude from step 3
3a Repeat 1-3 if needed with follow-up questions.
4. > Go ahead and implement the thing.
In step 3 you can, of course, answer the questions yourself, but letting Claude answer sometimes gives you surprising answers that broaden your vision on the problem a bit.
I am sure you could further automate this with hooks, slash commands, agents, etc., but so far I didn't bother.
Also I have heard great things about Serena-MCP but I haven't tried it myself yet.
1. > Please ask clarifying questions about {thing you want to implement} and write those into planning.md
2. > Please answer those questions with your best guesses / suggestions.
3. Review and correct the answers from Claude from step 3
3a Repeat 1-3 if needed with follow-up questions.
4. > Go ahead and implement the thing.
In step 3 you can, of course, answer the questions yourself, but letting Claude answer sometimes gives you surprising answers that broaden your vision on the problem a bit.
I am sure you could further automate this with hooks, slash commands, agents, etc., but so far I didn't bother.
Also I have heard great things about Serena-MCP but I haven't tried it myself yet.
Does saying 'Please' give better results than not saying please? To a bot
a) Parse PRD to tasks with Kiro or Task-Master
b) Check @DOCS/memory-bank.md then
Create a detailed plan to implement the x task. Do not write any code. The plan should be maintainable, understandable, and junior-friendly. Think hard and keep it simple.
c) You can implement plan but consider those things. 1. Check Existing Implementations and @DOCS/memory-bank.md Before coding, review previous implementations to avoid redundancy. 2. Use Up-to-date Documentation: Consult Phaser’s latest documentation(/phaserjs/phaser) via Context7 MCP to ensure your implementation aligns with current best practices. 3. Junior-Friendly Code: Write clear, straightforward code that is easily understandable by junior developers. 4. Simplicity & Efficiency: Minimize the amount of code you write. Avoid complexity, unnecessary duplication, and overly verbose implementations. 5. Maintainability: Ensure your code is maintainable, making it easy to update, debug, and enhance in the future.
d)you should document your implementation on @DOCS/memory-bank.md with brutal concise. you should be very concise. we need only important details.
b) Check @DOCS/memory-bank.md then
Create a detailed plan to implement the x task. Do not write any code. The plan should be maintainable, understandable, and junior-friendly. Think hard and keep it simple.
c) You can implement plan but consider those things. 1. Check Existing Implementations and @DOCS/memory-bank.md Before coding, review previous implementations to avoid redundancy. 2. Use Up-to-date Documentation: Consult Phaser’s latest documentation(/phaserjs/phaser) via Context7 MCP to ensure your implementation aligns with current best practices. 3. Junior-Friendly Code: Write clear, straightforward code that is easily understandable by junior developers. 4. Simplicity & Efficiency: Minimize the amount of code you write. Avoid complexity, unnecessary duplication, and overly verbose implementations. 5. Maintainability: Ensure your code is maintainable, making it easy to update, debug, and enhance in the future.
d)you should document your implementation on @DOCS/memory-bank.md with brutal concise. you should be very concise. we need only important details.
Recently, someone recommended using Taskmaster. I haven't tried it yet but it seems to include many things that I have been incorporating into my vibe coding sessions.
https://www.task-master.dev
https://www.task-master.dev