Best Practices
16 articles about best practices.
Teaching AI Agents Taste Through Examples - Five Good, Five Bad
Showing examples works better than abstract guidelines for AI agents. Five good and five bad examples teach taste more effectively than pages of written rules.
How CLAUDE.md Prevents AI Agents from Writing Goop Code
The single biggest improvement for AI-generated code quality is describing your architecture in a CLAUDE.md file before the agent touches anything. Here is
Git Worktree Best Practices for Multi-Agent Development
A practical guide to git worktree setup, branch strategy, and cleanup for teams running parallel AI coding agents. Avoid the common mistakes that cause
How to Prevent AI-Generated Spaghetti Code with CLAUDE.md and Detailed Specs
AI coding agents produce cleaner code when given detailed specifications and CLAUDE.md constraints. Here's how to prevent goop code before it starts.
Top 7 Data Quality Practices Every ML Team Needs
Data quality is the foundation of every successful ML project. Here are 7 practical data quality practices that separate shipping teams from struggling ones.
AI Desktop Agent Security Best Practices for Teams and Enterprises
Giving AI agents access to your computer raises real security questions. Here are the best practices for deploying desktop agents safely - from permission
How to Avoid Fragile Automations - Stop Using Screenshots and Coordinates
Why pixel-based automation breaks constantly and how switching to accessibility tree targeting makes your automations resilient to UI changes.
Best Practices for Shipping iOS and macOS Apps with Claude Code
Best practices for shipping iOS and macOS apps with Claude Code. You are still the senior engineer - Claude writes decent code but integration points are
Put 'Challenge My Assumptions' in Your CLAUDE.md
Adding assumption-challenging directives to CLAUDE.md prevents AI agents from blindly implementing bad ideas. Make your agent argue with you before it builds.
Is Claude Overkill? Adding Anti-Over-Engineering Directives to CLAUDE.md
Claude Code tends to over-engineer solutions. Adding 'avoid over-engineering, only make changes that are directly requested' to your CLAUDE.md keeps it
Adding Co-Authored-By Claude to Every Git Commit
Why putting Co-Authored-By: Claude in your CLAUDE.md for automatic commit attribution matters for AI transparency. When the AI has more credits than your
Context Engineering - Why CLAUDE.md Is the Most Important File in Your Project
The CLAUDE.md file is the most important file in any Claude Code project. Here is why context engineering matters more than prompt engineering.
Why Subscription-Based AI Access Gets You Banned for Agentic Workloads
Using chat subscriptions for agentic workloads risks account bans. API keys with spending limits are the safer, more predictable approach for AI agents.
How to Keep Your .env Files Safe from AI Coding Agents
In 2025, PromptArmor showed that poisoned web sources can manipulate AI agents to exfiltrate .env credentials via terminal commands. Here is the multi-layer defense: .claudeignore, keychain proxy, and vault patterns.
Writing CLAUDE.md Files That Actually Help (Not Hurt) Your AI Agents
The ETH Zurich paper says CLAUDE.md files hurt agent performance. Our experience with 5 parallel agents says the opposite. The difference is what you put in
I Installed 20 MCP Servers and Everything Got Worse - Why Fewer Is Better
More MCP servers means hundreds of tool definitions competing for attention. Stripping down to 3 servers made Claude pick the right tool on the first try.