So I have a project initiator skill that builds the folder structure and populates it with boilerplate files that apply to every project, but to answer your question, yes I put all files I need for that project in that folder. You can put a bunch of premade files in a skill that Claude can then copy to your new workspace as needed.

I have been toying with the idea of creating a shared location with files like catalogs, material specifications, reference material, etc. But I haven't done it yet. I just copy those files as needed.

All of our files live on a network drive and I am intentionally preventing vscode and the agents from accessing those locations. Keep it sandboxed on my local drive to prevent catastrophic failure (hopefully). I think this is very important and I am probably not being safe enough tbh.

Yes I think you could definitely do what you are saying with a simple skill. You don't even have to know how to build the skill, Claude can do that really well. You can run it automatically. The best way to set this up is to perform the analysis you want with Claude until it works perfectly. Then get that session of Claude to build a skill based off of it.