Effective Code Review Best Practices and Habits
Set clear standards for quality and pull request workflow so reviewers avoid arguing over style, letting automation handle formatting instead. Improve your reading skills by running the code locally and focusing on the specific purpose of the change rather than trying to learn the entire codebase. Communicate with the author, explain your reasoning when giving feedback, and document your testing steps and design choices in the pull request description.
Claude Code Best Practices for Context and Workflows
Treat Claude as a capable but context-limited junior developer by managing its context carefully and planning tasks before implementation. Keep your CLAUDE.md files short, ideally under 200 lines, focusing only on tech stacks, conventions, and domain rules Claude cannot infer on its own. Use MEMORY.md files and the /compact command to retain knowledge across sessions and compress context when responses degrade. Always use plan mode for complex tasks, break work into small incremental steps, and let Claude fix its own bugs to improve its understanding of your codebase. Use subagents to keep the main context window clean, and route mechanical tasks to cheaper models to save tokens.