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Stop Re-Explaining Your Project Every Session

2026-07-17claude-code, setup

Every session you re-explain the test runner, the import style, the branch naming. Groundhog Day, at your expense.

Run /init. It reads the codebase (build system, test framework, existing patterns) and writes a starter instruction file that gets loaded at the beginning of every conversation.

Then add the two or three things it cannot infer. "Prefer running a single test, not the whole suite." "Typecheck after a series of edits."

Check it into git and the corrections stop being personal: whoever fixes the instruction file next pulls your fix too, instead of re-deriving the same lesson the next time it bites someone.