Claude Code Advanced Patterns: 5 CLI Agent Design Tips
Most people use Claude Code for a week, come out with "it's basically ChatGPT with a terminal," and miss its real differentiator: persistent memory and a system that grows with use. This article compresses six months of production use into five patterns that matter — what CLAUDE.md is really for, what to store (and not store) in MEMORY, the composition logic behind Skills, three ways people misuse Subagent dispatch, and the trade-offs between tmux, MCP servers, and file buses for cross-CLI orchestration.
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Most people use Claude Code for a week, come out with "it's basically ChatGPT with a terminal," and miss its real differentiator: persistent memory and a system that grows with use. This article compresses six months of production use into five patterns that matter — what CLAUDE.md is really for, what to store (and not store) in MEMORY, the composition logic behind Skills, three ways people misuse Subagent dispatch, and the trade-offs between tmux, MCP servers, and file buses for cross-CLI orchestration.