Opus 5.5 Claude Code Workflow Best Practices

- set effort to medium at all times, more effort never gave me better outputs - keep your context window under 400k tokens - only use a global claude.md, let the code and your knowledge base do the rest - use git worktrees and keep one main chat as the router - prompt the router to spawn each project's thread in its own worktree, versioning gets easy - use subagents a lot, they keep your main context window clean - you share the vision and the end goal, the workers do the research and coding - skip plan mode, use /grill-me or the Compound engineering plugins instead - kick off new projects with heavy research and a pile of inspirations - then trust Opus overnight, with the right references it can build literally anything - disable 90% of your skills, you probably don't need them anymore - have Opus build an artifact that maps the full scope of each project - it updates the map at every milestone, so you always see what's done and what's left