I have been building a self-hosted personal task manager (React + FastAPI + Postgres) and I’ve settled into a workflow that I think is pretty solid. Curious if others are doing something similar or if I’m missing something obvious. I use a Claude Project with all my stack context, design decisions, and feature history baked in. Every conversation picks up where I left off, no re-explaining anything. Before any feature gets built I challenge it in the project first. Stress-test the design, poke at edge cases, let Claude tell me when something is overengineered. A lot of ideas get simplified or killed at this stage which saves a ton of wasted work downstream. Once something survives that process I write a tight implementation prompt and hand it off to Claude Code. Claude Code does all the file changes. I don’t touch files directly at all. Running everything on Sonnet 4.6. No model switching. Has anyone else fully separated thinking from doing like this? Feels right but curious if I’m leaving something on the table.
TL;DR: Claude Project for design and challenging ideas → tight handoff prompt → Claude Code for implementation. Never touch files myself. Everything on Sonnet 4.6. submitted by /u/zeboy
Originally posted by u/zeboy on r/ClaudeCode
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