Claude Code: My Complete Setup

Simon Willison wrote "I'm disappointed at how little good writing there is out there about effective prompting."

I spent a lot of time writing and tweaking my prompts, so I'm sharing what works for me.

This is my complete Claude Code setup, broken down into three posts:

📋 Claude Code: Configuration That Works

• Global CLAUDE.md
• Code style, commit message, and conversation guidelines

🔄 Claude Code: The Perfect Development Loop

My core development loop using custom commands:

• /user:todo - Implement a task from a checklist
• /user:commit - git commit with a nice message
• /compact - Manage the context window

🛠️ Claude Code: Custom Slash Commands

Commands for code maintenance:

• /user:comments - Clean up comments in recent changes
• /user:all-comments - Clean up comments project-wide
• /user:emoji - Add emoji to content
• /user:learn - Add to Claude memory
• /user:rebase - Resolve merge conflicts