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Claude Workflow

A portable, self-improving workflow for coding with Claude Code.

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The six stages of the Claude workflow

The workflow I use on every project, from this site to iOS apps: a staged process, two review commands, and a decision log that carries context from one session to the next. Nothing in it is tied to a language, repo host or issue tracker.

The stages

  1. Explore and plan: research first, then write a step-by-step plan and present it for review.
  2. Plan review loop: iterate on the plan. After a few rounds it moves into a file so changes can be reviewed as diffs.
  3. Implementation: only after the plan is approved.
  4. Post-implementation artifacts: DECISIONS.md, plus the /review-plan and /review-code commands.
  5. Verify: walk every scenario by actually running the change, and report each one separately. “The code looks correct” doesn’t count.
  6. Ship: ticket references, push, then a PR (stacked when needed) that lists the verification results.

Self-improvement

Both review commands end by asking what the review taught them, then write it down: in DECISIONS.md for project facts, or in the command itself when the checklist was missing something. Each session starts with everything earlier sessions learned.

This site was rebuilt with it.

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