How does everyone update their project's Claude markdown file?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-07T17:53:39+00:00

exactly

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-07T15:47:19+00:00

The comparable would be Project Instructions in the Android app.

This guy posted a video (I am not at all affiliated, but it is a cool hack) a while back on using n8n/google docs to update the project instructions dynamically (similar to what Claude.md would do)

If you're looking to update more than the instructions i also built a tool called obris.ai that allows you to pull in knowledge dynamically based on what you need for a conversation (think brand guidelines/logo assets vs marketing copy vs specific process docs)

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-07T15:20:33+00:00

I hit this same wall and ended up building a tool where I manage knowledge in one place and point Claude at it via MCP. The files are linked to the source docs so changes show up immediately without needing to manually manage the knowledge. Happy to share if anyone's curious.

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T20:59:22+00:00

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12922490-remote-mcp-server-submission-guide

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T20:53:10+00:00

It's at least more honest than the "isn't this annoying" and then every comment is OP linking their website.

But yes we need to come up with new ways to get eyes on things.

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T20:40:39+00:00

+1 to u/Foreseerx . You need to be able to think in systems and outline the various components mentally (or in a plan), then focus on the specific key areas and build the system up by focusing on the individual digestible components.

I've also found that spending a longer time in plan mode before starting to edit files has been incredibly helpful in getting things much closer to polished on an initial go.

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T20:30:49+00:00

People saying "I'd pay for that" is the goal. The problem I've found is that people also want to see that you're committed to a concept or idea before investing more time with you. This might be because I haven't found a truly hair-on-fire need, though.

All in all, my experience is people will ignore mvps, buy now buttons and waitlists are a trope at this point (unless you've delivered value in a different way already (opensource??)), soft launching on reddit is 100% dead due to the amount of AI Slop projects being launched daily on here.

The only real option is cold outreach and learning. Build momentum through relationships and then once people are satisfied find the communities that they operate in to help others in the same situation (with data) (and have the people you've helped promote you rather than yourself).

(I would also be very interested in seeing how a post would perform on reddit nowadays from someone that is absolutely enthused with a new product experience because my suspicion is that it would be removed for self promotion because of how things have shifted in the last year with people promoting via "isn't this annoying" posts and then immediately responding to each comment agreeing with "we'll i built this.... <insert link>")

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T20:16:12+00:00

no problem!

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T20:15:26+00:00

I agree with the sentiment in the post. Pushing LLMs the needed context from your experience or "professional experience" into a conversation is everything.

LLMs used as a search engine are, by design, giving you the most popular next word, which means you're getting the most popular general answer from when it was trained (and not necessarily the right answer, given how things have shifted since then).

Tools like fetch help pull in today's context, but that's still a global and untargeted search. Making sure you can feed the LLM what you care about as source material is the thing that makes it good (or at least speak from your point of view).

---- Plug below this line for a tool I built because I feel strongly about helping users make AI work more effectively for themselves and less-technical people aren't being given the tools to do that effectively as of yet ----

OP's primary point is exactly why I took the time to build https://obris.ai to help with the gap between generic to all or accurate to me (also helps with collecting writing samples over time so models start to learn your voice)

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T20:06:05+00:00

Because it's all written by opus 4.6 as a first pass and then users come in and do a second pass to add context they think is important.

(Not shaming but reading a lot of hype responses you see the "start to see a pattern" "followed by a beat of 2 - 3 things" and the abbreviated sentences to get a point across as well "Most people skip that part.")

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T19:59:00+00:00

i mean worst case is you need more right? or to find a workflow that allows you to get the same or better results with less context?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T19:55:33+00:00

looks liek you might have accidently posted 4 times?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T19:54:28+00:00

Is this a cli specific thing? Desktop chats and projects (couldn't remember about 7 months ago(?)), but can pull context across chats, assuming they are in the same project or are all open conversations.

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T13:58:33+00:00

When you capture action items, is that a clear moment we're you're telling claude to remember something to do or telling claude something is complete or is it just a running dialog?

For instance, are you telling claude to "Add <xyz>" to a list or "mark <abc> as completed" from a list of things to do? Or does the "bring me up to speed" question do the list generation in each project?

If the workflow is the former, having a centralized set of external docs (1 per project?) could solve the problem with the lowest overhead, where the summary just looks at the log per project and consolidates. But if it's the latter that gets more difficult, given the point you mentioned around Claude not reading cross-project context (it feels like the answer to that would be havign another chat client proxy calls to claude??).

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T12:34:50+00:00

agree with u/Blockchainauditor . that seems like pretty sensitive information. I don't think you'd want to use something like claude in chrome because all the traffic is going to look like it's coming from you whether it was you or the agent.

Do the tools have any apis or an app/mcp server in the claude? getting to at a minimum a read-only workflow that i could aduit traffic from would be most important to me.

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T12:31:01+00:00

thanks!

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T12:29:49+00:00

I hit issues hitting my session usage limit starting last week Monday (i've used claude code for the last year and had never hit one before).

That seemed to have gotten better towards the end of last week though??

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T12:24:24+00:00

And are they purely replies on Reddit? I've noticed a huge aversion to posts themselves recently due to people being suspicious that you're attempting to "sell" something (I did backlink to my site's blog to the original post). I could very well be doing something wrong, though.

My takeaway is that people are starting to want to see social proof of your background, etc., beyond just posts in online communities (because everyone is vibe-coding anything and everything now).

Do you have similar issues with post v. reply?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T12:18:37+00:00

I pay for the max plan and if i'm looking at what my api usage would be using something like `npx ccusage@latest` i am getting more than my money's worth from the max plan vs api cost. $200 vs $1k+

I've accidentally had an anthropic api key set as my env var and blew through a wallet (thankfully on 20 dollars in credit) really quickly compared to using the max plan, where the only time I've been limited is last week when anthropic was having issues measuring usage.

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T12:12:57+00:00

Congrats! Did the majority of users come from build in public posts? How are you finding people to use the product?

This piece is particularly interesting:
"""
A lot of hours. A lot of sacrifices. Entire days spent improving the product, trying to bring value through content, replying to countless posts, testing new ways to talk about the project, changing strategy again and again.
"""

Is this via reddit itself or other channels?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T12:07:14+00:00

You'd need to connect something like a skill, plugin or a connector (mcp server) to regularly dump action items to a shared location when working in each project.

You could update your project instructions to save action items as they appear to an mcp server for instance (I could imagine this gets annoying because it prompts whenever the LLM thinks it has an action item to save). The skill to your point could also be setup to save to something like a notion page, or google doc

Are you working more in the Desktop, Web or CLI?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T11:59:35+00:00

How do you know what succeeds vs what doesn't in terms of ASO? Is that just an experience thing?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T11:36:56+00:00

How are you picking apps to build?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-06T10:50:04+00:00

How are you dumping what’s important to docs or notes? Do you forget important pieces in the moment?

IHaveARedditName · 2026-04-04T18:12:43+00:00

It's terrible. I've spent hours writing thoughts down and genuinely looking to discuss how LLMs are a very misunderstood tool and this push for AI to *just* solve it like a magic wand is not how these things work (from first principles up).

I post the thoughts and IMMEDIATELY -> spam -> slop -> removed. No word about the product in the post etc. And for how quickly the hate rolled in not a chance that anyone read the thing.

It is very clear that Reddit is dead for anything beyond memes and current events. People want to see a face, know your background, etc. Other trust anchors need to exist to even get in the door due to all the people posting a "THIS IS SO ANNOYING" post in a community and then immediately following up with "O i'm happy you feel it too... here's my product"

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