# workflow

When learning a new tool with Codex, the worst move is asking it to give you a lecture. A better pattern is to ask it for an entry point, a rough map, a tiny exercise, a teach-back check, and breadcrumbs for next time.

Vaibhav Srivastav's Codex prompt is interesting because it describes an agent maintenance loop: look back at recent work, find repeated workflows, and package only high-confidence patterns into Skills, automations, or subagents. It is agent dreaming: turning busy work into capability.

Codex `/goal` is not a wish machine. Chris Hayduk's real point is engineering discipline: give the agent a measurable finish line, a fast feedback loop, and Markdown files that work as long-term memory.

SP-175 covered Opus 4.7 hard specs. This is the workflow layer. Pawel Huryn argues intent is the new unlock. Two-layer CLAUDE.md, per-call effort toggle, batch questions, show-don't-forbid, kill stale scaffolding, review plans not diffs — plus Anthropic/OpenAI converging.

A 25-person agent platform tore down its engineering pipeline and rebuilt it around one idea: agents are the primary builders. Result: 3-8 prod deploys a day, bad features killed same-day, six-week cycles now land in hours. Harness engineering, applied.

Daniel San moved from VSCode to Ghostty, then invented a four-letter mnemonic (SAND = Split / Across / Navigate / Destroy) to burn Ghostty's panel shortcuts into muscle memory. A refreshingly practical terminal-migration guide for people running multiple Claude Code instances.

In his full blog post, rodspeed lays out six ways to treat Claude Code as a general-purpose automation system rather than a code editor: manufacturing fresh eyes, meta-skills, freshness-aware search, conversation harvests, structured memory, and session handoffs. The deeper lesson is to look for workflows that can be framed as read, filter, decide, and present.

Why does Claude perform great in one repo and turn dumb in the next? The answer is the .claude/ folder. Akshay breaks down the full structure: three-level CLAUDE.md, custom commands, agents, permissions, and the global ~/.claude/ you probably didn't know existed.

@daniel_mac8 shares an open-source Elixir implementation: create a Linear issue and move it to 'in progress,' and Symphony picks it up in a dedicated Codex workspace. Codex even writes status updates back. The author argues this is software development moving up an abstraction layer.

A two-person boutique law firm uses Claude to handle the workload of over a dozen associates. From contract review and tracked changes to legal research, they encoded ten years of practice experience into Claude Skills. This isn't theory, it's a daily workflow — and the conclusion: general-purpose AI crushes all legal vertical AI products.

TypeScript guru Matt Pocock: Stop reading AI plans! The real signal is pre-plan conversation quality. If you and AI share mental models, the plan is just a compressed understanding, echoing Brooks' 'design concept' from The Mythical Man-Month.

Software engineer Zakk created an 'automatic discipline' productivity system using his OpenClaw agent and LogSeq. It automates overnight reports, 4:30 PM check-ins, and weekly/monthly reviews. The system runs itself, removing the need for willpower. Full templates included.

HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell shares his 6-step journey from AI skeptic to 'can't go back' — drop the chatbot, reproduce your work with agents, and end-of-day agent sessions

Why WhatsApp is a no-go, Telegram is for chatting, and Discord is for 'work'. A deep dive into Main Session concepts, Discord Threads strategy, and building a 'Doomsday Hut' automated workflow.

The key to going from 'AI user' to 'AI master': turn fragmented AI usage into a systematic workflow. Build a complete system with Claude Code for memory, content reuse, and methodology accumulation.

ADPList founder Felix Lee wrote a Claude Code guide for designers, promoting 'Vibe Coding'. As a Claude Code power user, I analyze what this means for engineers and tech leads: designers' description skills are actually an advantage, but there's still a gap between vibe code and production code.

Boris Cherny shows how he uses Claude Code to build Claude Code itself — 5 parallel terminals, all Opus 4.5, shipping 27 PRs per day

Turn your Clawdbot into a fully automated builder. Key point: it works while you sleep. 73 iterations, 6 hours runtime, human time investment: 5 minutes. The solution isn't a stronger model — it's a smarter loop.

Editing long documents with Claude Code is usually painful. Instead of bringing text to Claude, leave instructions where they belong. Use curly braces to mark your thoughts and edit instructions — each annotation applies to its surrounding text. Position IS Context.