I feel like everyone whos used claude for a while ends up developing their own weirdly specific workflows and habits. And i think they probably sound ridiculous to other people, but we keep using them and they keep working I’m very curious what some of these are for other people, especially the less obvious ones I feel I do all the normal stuff like starting fresh chats for unrelated tasks, keeping my CLAUDE.md and documentation short, and a couple other little things. But i think i have a couple that are a little strange but make a big difference to me I almost never use skills or typical plugins I find that their descriptions can add unnecessary context, and sometimes Claude ends up calling them when it really shouldn’t. I find with the models these days and using voice transcription I dont need skills to enforce things, or give extra guidance, the models just know. I tend to keep things in a skills folder somewhat but just local to that project, and only for very specific things Claude memory is OFF Not sure if this one is more common, but I find claude always makes insanely bad memories about finishing tasks/passes, documents terrible out of date old assumptions, states parts of the code as “working dont check” or other horrible things that make future agents more and more stupid and lazy. Claude would just be so unpredictable and behave very differently between projects, and turning it off made things way better Token saving tools I love maxing out my efficiency and just optimizing for random numbers (just a personal thing i think). But it has gotten me into using a bunch of different tools to reduce my token usage per task, and basicaly make my usage last way longer. Opus 5.5 has been great for usage, but the difference between when I stop using them to when I am is kind of wild. Also another byproduct of reducing token usage is my agents also work like way faster, which is quite convenient since on higher tier plans the time to complete tasks feels like more of a bottleneck than the usage since I have started using these tools. I have been using Graphify ( https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify ) and StateSync ( https://statesync.net/ ) quite extensively the last while and have been trying out Ponytail ( https://github.com/dietrichgebert/ponytail ) I have really enjoyed graphify and statesync since they dont seem to change how they AI feels to work with at all or how good of a job it does, and they just make it so much cheaper and faster. Ponytail is seeming to make a difference, at least with the number of random tests, but it changes how the AI responds and interprets my instructions, and I haven’t worked out if it is worth the tradeoff yet. Prompt writing I feel like this is somewhat of a ‘dying art’ if you could call it that. I think with voice transcription being able to just give bucketloads of detail, when paired with the insane understanding of claude these days removes the need for well crafted prompts alot of the time. Although, when i do have something important, or a new feature set I want to work on, I often open up a ChatGPT chat on the web, give it my prompt writing skill, and then just transcribe a crazy monologue, then answer a couple questions, and come out with a really good prompt that I touch up before sending off. The reason I think this is valuable still is because for larger work it is hard to think of everything up front, and to change things later is relatively expensive in terms of tokens compared to building it in first time. And having those questions helps me think of more detail than i would normaly, and forces me to question what I am asking for and if it is actualy the best way. Anyway, those are mine. I’m curious what other people are doing submitted by /u/InterestNo7490
Originally posted by u/InterestNo7490 on r/ClaudeCode