Comment by renewiltord

19 hours ago

Right, so you see the part where you "ask Claude to do a task" and then "copy-paste it into the template"? He was automating that because he has some n tasks he wants it to do without damaging the prior tasks.

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renewiltord

olalonde 19 hours ago

You can just clear the context or restart your Claude instance between tasks. e.g.:

  > do task 1
  ...task fails...
  > please update Claude.md so you don't make X mistake
  > /clear
  > do task 2
  ... task fails ...
  > please update Claude.md so you don't make Y mistake
  > /clear
  etc.

If you want a clean state between tasks you can just commit your Claude.md and `git reset --hard`.

I just don't get why you'd need have to a separate Claude that is solely responsible for updating Claude.md. Maybe they didn't want to bother with git?

renewiltord 18 hours ago
Presumably they didn't want to sit there and monitor Claude Code doing this for each of the 14 things they want done. Using a harness around Claude Code (or its SDK) is perfectly sane for this. I do it routinely. You just automate the entire process so that if you change APIs or you change the tasks, the harness can run and ensure that all of your sets are correctly re-done.
Sitting there and manually typing in "do thing 1; oh it failed? make it not fail. okay, now commit" is incredibly tedious.
- olalonde 18 hours ago
  
  They said they were copy/pasting back and forth. But regardless, what do you mean by "harness" and "sets"? Are you referring to a specific tool that orchestrates Claude Code instances? This is not terminology I'm familiar with in this context. If you have any link that explains what you are talking about, would be appreciated.
  
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