Question about the .claude folder structure

Hey Charlie — I'm setting up the four base-folder workspace from the lesson and hit some confusion about where the .claude subfolders (agents, commands, hooks, output-styles, plugins, skills) are supposed to live.

I discovered I actually have two .claude folders:

1. A global one in my home directory (C:\Users\PC\.claude) — this already has agents, commands, hooks, plugins, and skills folders, and it's where all my installed plugins/skills actually live.

2. A project one inside my workspace (.../vibe coding/.claude) — this one is empty.

My VS Code explorer only shows the project folder, so I couldn't see any of my installed plugins at first and thought something was broken — turns out they were just in the global folder one level up.

My question: When you say to build the .claude/ structure with a you mean the global .claude (applies to every project) or aper-project .claude inside each workspace? And should I be creating those subfolders in both, or just one? Trying to make sure I set up the workspace the way you intend before I start building.

Follow-up: Would the goal be to move my global .claude out of the root/home directory and repoint Claude to work from my workspace folder instead — so everything lives in one place I can actually see in my explorer? Or is having the global one separate from the project one actually the intended setup?

Thanks!

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