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Free Lesson
Build the CLAUDE.md Your Project Needs
30 min
Apr 23, 2026 1:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
Structure a CLAUDE.md that Claude actually follows
Learn the principles that make instructions stick: size, specificity, & structure. See a real production file dissected
Layer context across your project
Understand project, folder, and user-level files. Put instructions where they have the most impact.
Walk away with a template and a real production example
See how each section shapes Claude's behavior so you can apply it to your own codebase immediately after the session.
See where CLAUDE.md fits the bigger system
Preview how skills, hooks, and integrations build on your CLAUDE.md to create a compounding context engineering system.
Why this topic matters
Every Claude Code session without a CLAUDE.md starts from zero. Your results depend on how much context you paste in that day. A well-structured CLAUDE.md gives Claude project knowledge before you type a word, and that investment compounds across every future session. This is the difference between ad-hoc tool use and a systematic practice that scales to skills, hooks, and team patterns.
You'll learn from
Sam Keen
Author, Clean Architecture with Python | ex-AWS GenAI lead architect
Previously at AWS, Nike, Lululemon
