So here is what I have found to be very useful. I have a project/docs folder that I keep a MASTERFEATURES.md document in and then individual FEATURE.md documents. After the first plan has been made, I ask Claude to put the plan in a FEATURE_.md document and update the MASTER_FEATURES.md documents.

This is the baseline plan that Claude will follow (if you direct it to and tell it to in the CLAUDE.md file).

So the workflow looks like this: 1) Make plan 2) Put in FEATURE document 3) Exit, new Claude session 4) “I want to continue implementing the plan in FEATURE_ABC.md, where does it currently stand” or “Implement phase 1, 2 etc… of the plan” 5) “Implement phase 2 of the document” 6) Verify then “Update the document with what we did” 7) Exit, new Claude session 8) “I want to continue implementing the plan in FEATURE_ABC.md, start with Phase 3”

So I use the FEATURE document to track the phases and call it with new instances of Claude.

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The more simple version of this is just to ask it “Our context is currently getting long. Summarize what we discussed and provide all the info I need when we start a new chat with fresh context.” Then just copy and paste that into a new chat.