{"id":17171,"date":"2026-11-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbacklog.com\/blog\/?p=17171"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:58:51","slug":"claude-code-best-practices-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbacklog.com\/blog\/claude-code-best-practices-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Code best practices from the product side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Claude Code best practices that matter most for founders happen before the first prompt. Give each session one problem, state the user and the why up front, write must-haves Claude can check, and note what already exists. Claude reads your code well. It can&#8217;t read your users, so the product side is the part you have to hand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbb-summary\"><span class=\"mbb-summary-label\">In short<\/span><ul>\n<li>Claude can see your repo but not who your users are or why a feature matters. Tell it.<\/li>\n<li>Give each feature its own session, and clear the context between unrelated tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Write must-haves as checks that pass or fail, so Claude can verify its own work.<\/li>\n<li>Keep CLAUDE.md for what&#8217;s true on every task. Put each feature&#8217;s context in a spec.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tell Claude what it can&#8217;t see: the user and the why<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/code.claude.com\/docs\/en\/best-practices\">best practices for Claude Code<\/a> start from one rule: write down only what Claude can&#8217;t find by reading the repo. For an engineering team, that means a deploy step that lives in someone&#8217;s head. For a founder, the biggest missing piece is the person the feature is for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claude fills that gap with a default user. The default user wants every option, every setting and a dashboard. Your real users usually want one job done faster. When the prompt names them and their problem, Claude makes better calls on the dozens of small decisions you never see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbb-pair\">\n<div class=\"mbb-no\"><span class=\"mbb-label\">Instead of<\/span><p>Add CSV export to the invoices page.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mbb-yes\"><span class=\"mbb-label\">Try<\/span><p>Freelancers with 5 to 20 clients send invoice data to their accountant at month end. Six of them told us they copy rows by hand. Add a monthly CSV export to the invoices page for that job, with the columns an accountant needs.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second prompt changes what gets built. Claude now groups by month, picks accountant-friendly columns and puts the button where month-end work happens. You didn&#8217;t specify any of that. You told it who the work is for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Give each feature its own session<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A session that carries two features blends their decisions. The export work picks up assumptions from the settings page you discussed an hour ago. The docs recommend running <code>\/clear<\/code> between unrelated tasks, and starting over with a better prompt after two failed corrections rather than adding a third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you aren&#8217;t sure what you want yet, let Claude interview you first. Ask it to keep asking questions until it could write the spec, save that to a file, then build from the file in a fresh session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"mbb-steps\">\n<li><strong>Name one problem.<\/strong> Write it in one sentence, using your users&#8217; words.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Get interviewed if it&#8217;s fuzzy.<\/strong> Ask Claude to question you until it could write the spec, then save it as SPEC.md.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Build in a fresh session.<\/strong> Point Claude at SPEC.md so the build starts with a clean context and a written definition of done.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clear before the next feature.<\/strong> Run <code>\/clear<\/code> so the next task doesn&#8217;t inherit this one&#8217;s history.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"mbb-diagram\"><span class=\"mbb-diagram-title\">One feature, one session<\/span><ol class=\"mbb-flow\"><li><b>The problem<\/b><span>In your users&#x27; words<\/span><\/li><li><b>The spec<\/b><span>Why, who, must-haves<\/span><\/li><li><b>The build<\/b><span>Fresh session<\/span><\/li><li><b>The check<\/b><span>Pass or fail, with output<\/span><\/li><\/ol><figcaption>Each feature gets its own session, its own spec and a check Claude can run.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Write must-haves Claude can check<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claude stops when the work looks done. If nothing tells it whether the work is done, you become the test suite. The fix is a must-have that comes back pass or fail: a test, a script, or a behaviour Claude can confirm in the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"mbb-table\"><table>\n<thead><tr><th>Vague must-have<\/th><th>Checkable version<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>Export should be easy<\/td><td>An Export button appears on the invoices page for any month with at least one invoice<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Handle errors<\/td><td>A month with no invoices shows &#8220;Nothing to export&#8221; and downloads no file<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Fast enough<\/td><td>A month with 500 invoices in the seed data exports in under 5 seconds<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Accountant-friendly<\/td><td>Columns are date, client, invoice number, net, tax, total, in that order<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then ask for evidence, not a summary. &#8220;All tests pass&#8221; tells you little. The command Claude ran and its output tells you a lot, and it&#8217;s faster to read than to rerun. For more on writing a spec this way, see <a href=\"https:\/\/mindbacklog.com\/guides\/spec-driven-development-for-founders\">spec-driven development for founders<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Say what already exists and what&#8217;s already broken<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coding agents rebuild things that are already there and re-break things you fixed last week. Both happen because nobody said what&#8217;s nearby. Two short lists in the prompt prevent most of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbb-example\"><span class=\"mbb-label\">Example<\/span><p>For the invoice export, an illustrative note might read: Exists: the invoice table component and the month filter on \/invoices; reuse both. Broken: totals round wrong for currencies with no decimal places (open issue). Don&#8217;t touch the billing webhook in this session.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8220;don&#8217;t touch&#8221; line matters more than it looks. It turns a vague worry into a boundary Claude can respect. If a rule truly has no exceptions, such as never editing the migrations folder, the docs suggest enforcing it with a hook instead of a sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keep CLAUDE.md short and the feature context in a spec<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claude Code loads CLAUDE.md into every session, so every line costs a little attention on every task. Keep it for what&#8217;s true everywhere: who the product is for in one line, what&#8217;s out of scope, and the command that proves work is done. Each feature&#8217;s why, metric and must-haves belong in that feature&#8217;s spec, which the session reads only when it needs it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># Product\nInvoicing for freelancers with 5 to 20 clients.\nMost use it on a laptop at month end.\n\n# Out of scope\nPayroll, tax filing, multi-currency ledgers.\n\n# Done means\nnpm test passes and npm run lint is clean.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbb-callout\"><p><strong>Note.<\/strong> If you keep adding emphasis to a CLAUDE.md line and Claude still misses it, the file is probably too long or the line is a hard rule that belongs in configuration.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Check the prompt before you send it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Run through this list once per feature. It takes two minutes and saves the session you would otherwise spend correcting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mbb-checklist\">\n<li>The problem in one sentence, in your users&#8217; words<\/li>\n<li>Who has it, and how many people mentioned it<\/li>\n<li>Three to six must-haves that pass or fail<\/li>\n<li>What already exists and what&#8217;s broken nearby<\/li>\n<li>The command Claude should run to prove it&#8217;s done<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s out of scope for this session<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founders who build with an agent every day tend to keep this as a template. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mindbacklog.com\/for\/builder-founders\">page for founders building with Claude Code or Cursor<\/a> shows how the same list scales past a handful of features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbb-inline-cta\"><p><strong>See what a coding agent receives.<\/strong> A sample Build Pack for a made-up product, with every section&#8217;s source.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/mindbacklog.com\/sample-build-pack\">See a sample Build Pack<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doing this in MindBacklog<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MindBacklog keeps what your users said, ranks the problems they have, and hands your coding agent the why. For each feature, the Build Pack carries why it matters, who it&#8217;s for, the metric, and the must-haves with acceptance criteria, and every section names its source. It also says what&#8217;s already broken and what already exists. Copy it for Claude Code or Cursor, or let your agent pull it over MCP on the Growth and Scale plans. <a href=\"https:\/\/mindbacklog.com\/features\/build-pack\">How the Build Pack works<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the most important Claude Code best practices?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell Claude what it can&#8217;t see, give it a check it can run, and keep each session to one task. For founders, &#8220;what it can&#8217;t see&#8221; is mostly the user and the reason for the feature. Those three habits prevent most rework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Should product context go in CLAUDE.md or in a spec?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both, at different levels. CLAUDE.md holds what&#8217;s true on every task, such as who the product is for and what&#8217;s out of scope. A spec holds one feature&#8217;s why, metric and must-haves, so it doesn&#8217;t weigh on unrelated work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How long should a CLAUDE.md file be?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic&#8217;s memory docs suggest staying under 200 lines per CLAUDE.md file, because longer files cost context and reduce how well Claude follows them. Include only what Claude couldn&#8217;t work out from the code. Rules for one part of the codebase can move into path-scoped rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude reads your code well. It can&#8217;t read your users. 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