Claude Code Project Memory & Skills

Source: Claude Code Project Memory & Skills (Part 2)

Metadata

• Creator: CampusX (Nitish Singh)
• Series: Agentic Coding with Claude Code
• Key Focus: How to move beyond “Vibe Coding” using persistent project context and specialized skills.

Key Takeaways

1. The Context Problem: Standard LLMs lack local repo awareness; Claude Code solves this with claude.md.
2. Project Brain (claude.md): A persistent file that stores architecture, conventions, and instructions.
3. Hierarchical Scoping:
   • ~/.claude: Global settings.
   • ./.claude/claude.md: Project settings.
   • subdir/claude.md: Specialized local context.
4. Skills Architecture: Specialized sub-agents loaded via skills/ folders. This allows “Progressive Disclosure” of task-specific logic without bloating the main context.
5. Bootstrapping: Use /init to generate the initial project memory by analyzing the codebase.

Related Wiki Pages

• Claude-Code
• Agent-Memory-Systems
• Vibe-Coding
• CampusX