My personal notes for Claude Code - Best Practices for Agentic Coding

Workflows

Workflows are powerful, repeatable patterns that allow you to get much better results from LLMs. Here are a few battle-tested approaches:

• Plan → Code → Commit: Understand the problem and plan the approach before implementation to reduce unnecessary changes.
• Write tests → Commit → Code → Iterate → Commit: Start with failing tests to ensure proper coverage and validate test behavior.
• Write code → Screenshot → Commit: Iterate on visual work by comparing screenshots until they match design mocks.
• Create checklist → Implement checklist items one-by-one: Break complex tasks into steps, completing each before moving forward.
• Verify/code review: Use a separate agent for code review to get fresh perspective on implementation.

Quick Tips

Some other tips worth remembering:

• Use double <escape> to rewrite a previous prompt.
• Claude tends to work better if you have it generate a checklist of tasks, and then go through and implement them one-by-one. This works even better if you have it use a markdown file with the scratchpad.
• Use git worktree to have Claude work on multiple tasks in parallel.