Patriola's Guide to Claude

You already run Claude every day, and you've hit the ceiling: Every session opens blind. It wakes up knowing nothing about your projects, your machines, or what you settled yesterday, so you burn the first ten minutes re-explaining yourself before any real work starts. Run one project and that's a mild tax. Twenty, and it's a part-time job. This book is the operating system the author runs to kill that tax - the plumbing a session uses to load its own context and hand off cleanly to the next one, across every project on the drive. You wire it once and stop thinking about it.

This is for advanced users who are comfortable in the Claude Code CLI.

Nine chapters, each a working part of one system:

• a launcher that opens Claude already scoped to the right project
• aSESSION_LOADER that tells the model where everything lives and what it must never read
• a SessionStart hooks that inject the right context for each kind of session, before your first message
• a /start routine that reports the three facts that matter and skips the rest
• capturing ideas and tasks mid-session without switching apps
• bending the whole system to fit your real inputs, whether that's a task queue, an inbox, or a ticket tool
• surviving compaction with a baton that carries state across the context cut
• standing rules that end the re-explaining for good, plus how to prune the ones that go stale
• running Claude across a laptop, a GPU box, and anything else you can SSH into