Claude Code 101: A First Principles Approach

The article presents Claude Code's various features—including CLAUDE.md, rules, and skills—not as separate tools, but as a "ladder" for effective context management. By moving from basic prompting to structured documentation and on-demand workflows, users can prevent "context overflow" and "convention drift." Ultimately, this approach allows developers to optimize performance by ensuring the model only processes relevant information at the moment it is needed.