My problem before this course (which I could not identify or appreciate until now) was that I had a giant Claude.md file that covered the entire project. It provided much useless information each time I attempted a task and the outputs drifted. I forgot that the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. I am in process of breaking apart my MOA ( Mother of All) MD files into smaller context specific Claude.md files that reside in their appropriate folder in the workflow. Orchestration of necessary information for completion of a task via the routing table streamlines workflows, improves token efficiency, and improves outputs. I am getting it clearly now!

My issue was converting an existing free form project that had some structure but not a structure that utilized the folders as the workflow cleanly. I have had to go back and evaluate the folders and flow through the lens of this course and revise accordingly

This video was extremely helpful. I am currently trying to leverage the folder approach on a project to analyze an opposing party’s attorney fees and costs in an arbitration I unfortunately lost. I have to perform the analysis under eleven or so cases that control how a prevailing party can claim attorney fees and costs. The old way was reviewing line by line and creating spreadsheets based upon the analysis from each case applied to the fees and costs sought and then combining all the analysis tracks into a complete analysis with justification for allowing, disallowing or reducing proposed fees and costs and preparing a memorandum on same. My first run (before finding this group) was in Claude, bit the limitations of chat were too great to get a reliable outcome. So I found the option of ClaudeCode. My first attempt with Claude Code blew through tokens and the project would degrade as I went through each phase of analysis ( tried doing it in one continuous session) the end result was the billing analysis was full of inaccurate results. I then took a second shot at it and tried to break it down into smaller chunks ( again before the group). I also started to have Claude after each conversation phase create a resume.md so that it would create a jump off point for our next conversation and continue from where we left off with the knowledge necessary to execute without having to burn tokens to get up to speed. I also at this point created a process where it would evaluate how it performed the round and make recommendations on how it can improve its efficiency and quality of outputs ( After Action Report). I would then take this after action report and have it update the MD files used to incorporate the suggested improvements. At that point, I would start the next phase. The outputs become more consistent and defensible, which is what I wanted, but there were issues where small nuances were being missed in the analysis. I would have to go back and try to iterate from the point of failure and redo several phases to get to an improved end result. Better than the old way of doing this analysis by hand with spreadsheets ( in this use case I am dealing with six years of billing records and cost records which is voluminous). Here I am now, creating folders with opposing party billing and cost resources, our billing and cost resources, controlling case law ( each case is now distilled into an MD file that outlines how fees and costs are determined under that specific controlling case), draft outputs, final outputs and briefing on outputs (actual initial drafts of memorandums and spreadsheets that have case cites, categories of fees and costs and spreadsheets backing up analysis for final editing) I am still having it go through a After Action Report stage and self improve efficiency and outputs. I am still plugging away at it, doing the course. here and then revising and improving this project based upon what I am learning. It is slow but I see improvements. I also see a potential commercial application for this project when I have it complete and battle tested. This is definitely a different way of thinking for me from my day job, but I am seeing ways that this thinking can improve my day job. I am an old dog learning new tricks!

@Toby Iverson this looks amazing, I want to use it for Autism.