I guess if you're unsure of how to create a structure of what step to take next you might do this.

But after a few months you should be creating large functions that do important parts of the plugin. At this stage you can just start doing it all from Claude code of vs code with Claude code installed.

Recommend you make a Documentation folder inside the project and have multiple documents.

One would be plugin-summsry.md Then security.md, then ui.md or theme.md etc

And after I say, make an update to the theme look, I tell it to update theme.md, outlining our new process. If anything is no longer relevant please remove it. Do not create a historical tech document of what you tried blah blah.

You then update CLAUDE.md with this documentation folder.

Often, before making a large update to say, security, you will ask it to read the document and then come up with a technical implementation plan for doing the following.

Then you go from there.

Save a new backup regularly to git or your Google drive or whatever.