Comment by theptip

> some of the ones I've played with come from telling Claude "Here's my copy of programming book. Please read the book and pull out reusable skills that weren't obvious to you before you started reading

This is actually a really cool idea. I think a lot of the good scaffolding right now is things like “use TDD” bit if you link citations to the book, then it can perhaps extract more relevant wisdom and context (just like I would by reading the book), weather than using the generic averaged interpretation of TDD derived from the internet.

I do like the idea of giving your Claude a reading list and some spare tokens on the weekend where you’re not working, and having it explore new ideas and techniques to bring back to your common CLAUDE.md.