Comment by vunderba
Comment by vunderba 3 days ago
From the article:
> We recommend keeping task-specific instructions in separate markdown files with self-descriptive names somewhere in your project. Then, in your CLAUDE.md file, you can include a list of these files with a brief description of each, and instruct Claude to decide which (if any) are relevant and to read them before it starts working.
I've been doing this since the early days of agentic coding though I've always personally referred to it as the Table-of-Contents approach to keep the context window relatively streamlined. Here's a snippet of my CLAUDE.md file that demonstrates this approach:
# Documentation References
- When adding CSS, refer to: docs/ADDING_CSS.md
- When adding assets, refer to: docs/ADDING_ASSETS.md
- When working with user data, refer to: docs/STORAGE_MANAGER.md
https://gist.github.com/scpedicini/179626cfb022452bb39eff10b...
I have also done this, but my results are very hit or miss. Claude rarely actually reads the other documentation files I point it to.