Give Claude Persistent Project Memory
Every time you start a new Claude Code session, it explores your project from scratch — re-reading scripts, figuring out what the data files contain, rediscovering how things fit together. The CLAUDE.md file is the fix: Claude reads it automatically at the start of every session, so it already knows your project before you type your first prompt.
The team's project is already in your working directory at /home/repl/climate-analysis/.
This exercise is part of the course
Claude Code 101
Exercise instructions
- Start Claude Code with
claude. - Run
/initto generate aCLAUDE.mdfile from the current project. - Ask Claude to add the Python version (
3.11) and the command to run the tests (pytest) to theCLAUDE.md. - When done, type
/exitto exit Claude Code.
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