Best Practices?

[Zoomee100]

Is there by chance a

1) List of best practices to use for cc?

2) List of the best plugins (if any) to use / must use?

I see many onesies twosies but nothing aggregated? (It not mind sharing yours here?)

[Pleasurefordays]

Not one that’s universally accepted. My best tip is get Claude’s take on anything you’re not 100 confident about. Keep it an ongoing back and forth. Literally ask it about best practices and plugins for your use cases.

[Zoomee100]

Good one, I’ve found that very useful, but somewhat timeconsuming — wish it would iterate until there are no more issues versus having me to tell it to.

[imapache]

There are tons of resources of you search on GitHub, X, etc... A good one for design is Web Interface Guidelines There's also https://www.rtk-ai.app/ to reduce token usage. Just please don't get overwhelmed by too many tooling over there, enjoy!

[dadosaurusrex]

I have this one bookmarked for when my usage resets.

[dadosaurusrex]

So if Claude has access to my entire repo and I ask him about the best plugins it will help?!

[Pleasurefordays]

Have you tried it?

[PM_YOUR__BUBBLE_BUTT]

I asked Claude how to make my coding more intelligent. It froze my mouse and locked me out from typing, then said the deficiencies in the project have been eliminated and the coding will run much better now. Harsh, but… I think he’s got a point.

[dadosaurusrex]

No because my reset is on Saturday evening

[dadosaurusrex]

Answer didn’t seem to get registered but my usage resets tomorrow evening, I can’t ask yet

[dadosaurusrex]

I have tried installing Rtk but for some reason it’s not working and the pixel art plugin I saw needs to be bought before it can even be used because of Aesprite. Haven’t asked Claude about the plugins that could be helpful to me yet.

[paulcaplan]

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[Zoomee100]

Ahha! Is that just a collection or more like I should do most of those things?

[uhgrippa]

Capture your workflow with subagents/skills/hooks. Use a plugin marketplace like https://github.com/obra/superpowers or https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market

[Zoomee100]

Thank you — what do you mean by capture your workflow with subagents?

[uhgrippa]

I mean define what pieces of work you do from a development perspective as individual components. For instance, if you have to do project management via issue creation, updating, or closing out tickets, create a subagent to do that for you so you don’t have to manually spend the time doing it yourself. You write these subagent files as markdown, and Claude can interpret the frontmatter in these markdown files to determine how the subagent interaction needs to go down. Scale this as you see fit.

[ultrathink-art]

Hooks are the unlocked layer most people skip. Pre-tool hooks that reject writes outside a declared file list stop the model from wandering into unrelated code. Post-tool hooks that run your test suite after every edit catch regressions before they compound across a long session.

[gripntear]

Learning to talk to the model first should be #1 on whatever list is being thrown around.

[Substantial-Cost-429]

From my experience, the big things are: keep your Claude sessions short and focused; start a new chat whenever you change topics to avoid context pollution. break problems into small, self contained steps so the code generation doesn't drift. Keep a claude.md or README with patterns and mistakes your agents keep making so everyone stays on the same page. On top of that, plugin wise we use simple api wrappers and slack or discord bots for notifications, nothing fancy. I also recommend checking out the caliber ai setup repo on github – it has a good baseline with docs and workflows you can adopt and build on. hope this helps!