Claude Code Is A Brain With No Structure. Here Is How I Finally Got It To Work.

After months of Claude Code rewriting the wrong files, forgetting context, and breaking builds, I figured out the fix. Two markdown files. That is it. Here is exactly how I set it up, plus the exact prompt I use to bootstrap every new repo.

!Claude Code with structure/blog-images/instagram-automation-hero.jpg I have been using Claude Code every day for months across 5 businesses, 12 repos, and somewhere north of a million lines of generated code. And for most of that time, I was doing it wrong. Here is what "doing it wrong" looked like