To get claude code to give you the best output, you need to first understand how they work. Thats the hack imo. If you start any project, just use the /init command. if you use cursor, it is best to read around what you want to build so you can explain to composer or gpt 5 in plan mode. it will create a plan but don't choose build,save the plan in your project and go to claude code to /init. The claude md file it generates is more than enough because it looks for files that already exist in the project and adds any context needed. Let me walk you through my process so you can use yourself.
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You will have to know what you want, you don't necessarily need to be an expert in the language you are coding in, but you need to know what you want. This includes the features, the coding style, the end product and boundaries of what you want built.
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Plan very well. This is the most important step that can't be skip if you want to be very successful. Write all that you want to see happen, code examples, wh