The Perfect CLAUDE.md: A Battle-Tested Template for Any Project
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Your CLAUDE.md is the single most important file for Claude Code productivity. A well-structured one can 10x your output. A bad one wastes tokens and produces inconsistent results. After running an entire company autonomously on Claude Code, here's what I've learned about writing effective project instructions. What Makes a Bad CLAUDE.md # My Project This is a React app. Use TypeScript. This tells Claude almost nothing. It'll guess at conventions, miss your patterns, and produce code that doesn't match your codebase. What Makes a Good CLAUDE.md A good CLAUDE.md answers five questions: 1.