Which part, when?
A decision table for the four moving parts, and the slash menu that ties them together.
4 min read
Curious
0 XPFour parts, four jobs. Most confusion comes from putting something in the wrong one.
| Part | Holds | Loads | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
CLAUDE.md | Rules that apply to everything | Every session, automatically | No em dashes. Ask before assuming. |
| Skill | A procedure with steps | Only when its description matches | The nine-phase writing pipeline |
| Subagent | A job to run in parallel | When you fan work out | Research one article, return findings |
| Reference file | Shared detail, and logs | When a skill points at it | The anti-slop list. The research log. |
Once the skills exist, you run them by name from the slash menu:
/, see everything you have built. This is the moment the system stops being a folder and starts feeling like a tool.You do not need all four on day one
Start with CLAUDE.md alone. Add a skill when you have explained a procedure twice. Add subagents when you have four things to research at once. Most people never need more than that.
Sort them
30 XP+8 perfectYou want Claude to always log every statistic it cites into one shared file, so you can see which sources are over-used across articles.
Where does that belong?
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