4. Projects and Persistent Context (Curing AI Amnesia)

4. Projects and Persistent Context (Curing AI Amnesia)

In Episode 4 of Beyond Prompting, we tackle the most frustrating bottleneck in AI collaboration: starting every conversation from a clean slate. If you find yourself repeatedly re-explaining your organizational domain, terminology, and conventions, Claude Projects provide a persistent container to turn disposable chats into an ongoing working relationship. In this episode, we break down the core mechanics of context persistence:

    • The Three-Layer Architecture: How Projects separate Custom Instructions and the Knowledge Base (which persist across sessions) from Conversations (which remain disposable and unshared).
    • Instructions That Earn Their Place: How to draft high-impact custom instructions that focus on non-derivable rules, target audience descriptions, and standing conventions without wasting context on generic filler.
    • Curating the Knowledge Base: Why uploading pattern-defining specifications beats dumping entire document trees, and how to prune superseded files so conflicting context doesn't confuse the model.
    • Diagnosing Project Failures: Recognizing the failure modes of Projects that are either too broad or too fragmented, using the "5-minute re-explanation test" to know when your setup needs refactoring.
    • Shared Institutional Memory: How shared Projects serve as automated onboarding for new team members, establishing consistent organizational context without manual runbooks.

(Note for listeners: This episode covers Chapter 4 of Sho Shimoda's book RUNNING CLAUDE: The Operator’s Guide to Chat, Cowork and Claude Code, available on Amazon as the successor book to Master Claude: Chat, Cowork and Code).

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19. Preventing Context Pollution with Subagents (Delegating Heavy Lifting)

19. Preventing Context Pollution with Subagents (Delegating Heavy Lifting)

In Episode 19 of Beyond Prompting, author Sho Shimoda explores how to manage complex, search-heavy engineering tasks without cluttering your main conversation window using Subagents. When an agent rea...

14 Loka 52min

18. Packaging and Distributing Workflows (Plugins and Marketplaces)

18. Packaging and Distributing Workflows (Plugins and Marketplaces)

In Episode 18 of Beyond Prompting, author Sho Shimoda explores how to bundle your team's custom skills, commands, subagents, hooks, and MCP server configurations into a single, installable unit using ...

12 Loka 29min

17. Connecting Systems with MCP (The Stateless Wire Protocol)

17. Connecting Systems with MCP (The Stateless Wire Protocol)

In Episode 17 of Beyond Prompting, author Sho Shimoda breaks down the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—the open standard that connects Claude Code to external systems like ticket trackers, wikis, and data...

11 Loka 47min

16. Packaging Standard Operating Procedures (Agent Skills)

16. Packaging Standard Operating Procedures (Agent Skills)

In Episode 16 of Beyond Prompting, author Sho Shimoda breaks down how to turn your team's recurring instructions and workflows into executable Agent Skills. Rather than re-explaining multi-step proced...

9 Loka 50min

15. Prompt Caching and Durable State (The Economics of Context and Memory)

15. Prompt Caching and Durable State (The Economics of Context and Memory)

In Episode 15 of Beyond Prompting, author Sho Shimoda breaks down prompt caching—the single largest cost lever in the Claude Code ecosystem—and demonstrates how to manage long-term project memory. We ...

5 Loka 48min

14. Memory, Compaction and Checkpoints (Managing Context in Long Sessions)

14. Memory, Compaction and Checkpoints (Managing Context in Long Sessions)

In Episode 14 of Beyond Prompting, author Sho Shimoda breaks down how to manage context budgets and session state when conversations run long. We examine the three core mechanisms that control what Cl...

4 Loka 45min

13. Curing AI Amnesia (CLAUDE.md and Rules)

13. Curing AI Amnesia (CLAUDE.md and Rules)

In Episode 13 of Beyond Prompting, author Sho Shimoda breaks down how to configure persistent repository instructions using CLAUDE.md and rule files. Rather than treating CLAUDE.md as a generic style ...

30 Syys 46min

12. Safe Refactoring of Legacy Code (Characterize, Change, Verify)

12. Safe Refactoring of Legacy Code (Characterize, Change, Verify)

In Episode 12 of Beyond Prompting, we tackle one of the most high-stakes tasks in software engineering: letting an AI agent refactor an existing codebase. Author Sho Shimoda breaks down why asking Cla...

29 Syys 44min