CLAUDE.md: teach Claude your project

2 min read·Lesson 1 of Hooks, MCP, and the workflow

Claude follows instructions well — but a fresh session starts with no memory of your project. CLAUDE.md fixes that. It is a plain text file in your project folder that Claude Code reads automatically, every session, before it does anything. Think of it as a short note you leave for Claude so you stop re-explaining the same things.

You met /init back in Module 2, which writes a starter CLAUDE.md. This lesson is about making it genuinely useful.

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