Comment by giancarlostoro

I use Zed (this is completely optional since claude code can work 100% stand alone), Claude Code (I have Max) and Beads. I also take advantage of the .claude/instructions.md file and let Claude know to ALWAYS use Beads, and to use rg instead of "grep" which is kind of slow (if anyone from Anthropic is reading this, for the love of GOD use ripgrep instead of grep), a small summary about the project, and some ground rules. If there's key tickets that matter for the project I tell it to note them in the instructions. The instructions files the first thing Claude reads when you first open up a chat window with it, if you make amendments ask it to reread the file.

Outside of that its trial and error, but I've learned you don't need to kick off a new chat instance very much if at all. I also like Beads because if I have to "run" or go offline I can tell it to pause and log where it left off / where its at.

For some projects I tell claude not to close tickets without my direct approval because sometimes it closes them without testing, my baseline across all projects is that it compiles and runs without major errors.