Claude Code Workflows
Claude Code Workflows
Section titled “Claude Code Workflows”Step-by-step guides for common development patterns with Claude Code.
🔍 Search & Discovery
Section titled “🔍 Search & Discovery”Master the art of code search by combining rg, grepai, Serena & ast-grep
Learn when to use each tool, how to combine them for maximum efficiency, and real-world workflows including:
- Exploring unknown codebases
- Large-scale refactoring
- Security audits
- Framework migrations
- Performance optimization
Key Topics:
- Quick decision matrix
- Complete feature comparison
- 5 combined workflows
- Performance benchmarks
- Common pitfalls
- Tool selection cheatsheet
🎯 Development Workflows
Section titled “🎯 Development Workflows”Structure complex tasks with planning mode before execution.
When to use: Multi-step features, architectural changes, uncertainty about approach
Test-Driven Development workflow: write tests first, implement after.
When to use: Critical functionality, regression prevention, API design
Write specifications before code for better requirements clarity.
When to use: Team collaboration, complex features, documentation-first projects
Improve code through multiple refinement cycles.
When to use: Quality improvements, performance optimization, code cleanup
Use existing battle-tested repositories as scaffolding for new projects.
When to use: Starting new projects, standardizing team patterns, rapid prototyping from proven foundations
Scale CLAUDE.md across a multi-developer, multi-tool team with profile-based module assembly.
When to use: Team 5+ devs, multiple AI tools (Claude Code + Cursor/Windsurf), mixed OS
Enforce per-PR documentation with a 3-layer system: CLAUDE.md rule + UserPromptSubmit hook + CI gate
Eliminates merge conflicts on CHANGELOG.md, captures context at implementation time, and ensures DB migrations are never silently deployed. Includes a reusable UserPromptSubmit hook pattern for enforcing any mandatory workflow step.
Key Topics:
- CLAUDE.md workflow rule for autonomous fragment creation
UserPromptSubmithook with 3-tier priority (enforcement, discovery, contextual)- Conditional suggestion pattern: “if PR-intent without fragment-mention”
- CI enforcement with independent migration check job
Two-engine UserPromptSubmit hook system: regex enforcement + self-calibrating BM25 lexical scoring
Injects ranked skill suggestions as additionalContext so Claude proposes the right skill even when phrasing was never anticipated. BM25 generalizes from scenario examples; the regex layer handles enforcement patterns. Both run in parallel on every prompt.
Key Topics:
- Regex vs BM25 decision table (when each engine wins)
- Corpus format: 10+ positive + 3+ negative scenarios per skill
build-index.js: leave-one-out calibration, F-beta threshold,ok/excluded/conflictstatus- Wiring two hooks in parallel via settings.json
- Detached background index rebuild when corpus changes
3-phase feature development with explicit validation gates between phases
Build features in three locked phases: Research feasibility first, plan the implementation second, write code third. Each phase produces a concrete artifact (RESEARCH.md → PLAN.md → code). Each gate requires an explicit GO before the next phase starts.
When to use: Features with unclear feasibility, more than a day of work, unknown technical territory, or anywhere discovering a wrong assumption late is costly
5 production-ready patterns for automating PR reviews, issue triage, and quality gates
Connect Claude directly to your GitHub workflow via the official claude-code-action. Two modes: interactive (@claude mentions) and fully automated (push/schedule triggers).
Key Topics:
- Setup via
/install-github-app(30-second quickstart) - Pattern 1: On-demand PR review via
@claudemention - Pattern 2: Automatic review on every push
- Pattern 3: Issue triage and labeling
- Pattern 4: Security-focused review on sensitive paths
- Pattern 5: Scheduled weekly repo health check
- Cost control, concurrency, fork safety
When to use: Any team wanting AI-powered code review without managing infrastructure
Switch between specialist roles across your ship cycle: strategic product gate, architecture review, paranoid code review, automated release, native browser QA, and retrospective.
When to use: Ship cycles where you want explicit separation between product direction, engineering rigor, review, and release — rather than one generic assistant handling all phases
🎨 Design & Content
Section titled “🎨 Design & Content”Convert design mockups (Figma, wireframes) into working code.
When to use: Frontend development, UI implementation, design system work
Generate social preview images dynamically at build time with Satori and resvg.
When to use: Astro projects, keeping social previews accurate without maintaining static PNGs
Generate professional PDFs using Quarto/Typst with Claude Code.
When to use: Reports, documentation, whitepapers, technical documents
6-stage skill pipeline: raw material → structured talk → AI-generated slides via Kimi.
When to use: Conference talks, meetup presentations, internal tech talks — from article, transcript, or notes
Configure Text-to-Speech for Claude Code responses (Agent Vibes integration).
When to use: Audio feedback, accessibility, hands-free coding
🔬 Code Exploration
Section titled “🔬 Code Exploration”Systematically explore and understand unfamiliar codebases.
When to use: New projects, legacy code, documentation gaps
Related: See Search Tools Mastery for advanced multi-tool exploration strategies.
Multi-Agent & Advanced
Section titled “Multi-Agent & Advanced”JavaScript scripts that orchestrate tens to hundreds of subagents with deterministic control flow, parallel fan-out, and automatic resume on interruption.
When to use: Multi-stage parallelizable work, long-running jobs, tasks needing structured data handoffs between phases, or any situation where a single agent would hit context limits
Key Topics:
- Primitive reference:
agent(),parallel(),pipeline(),phase(),log(),budget pipeline()vsparallel()with benchmark data (3x latency difference, 2x token difference)- Schema-structured outputs across phases
- 5 named patterns: adversarial verification, loop-until-dry, judge panels, multi-modal sweep, plan-execute-review
- Behavioral guarantees: determinism constraints, resume/caching, concurrency caps
Orchestrate multiple specialized agents working in parallel on complex tasks.
When to use: Tasks that benefit from parallelism, specialized expertise, or independent verification
Fast-track guide to setting up your first agent team in under 30 minutes.
When to use: New to multi-agent patterns, want to experiment before committing to full setup
Run Opus for planning and Sonnet for execution in two coordinated Claude Code instances.
When to use: Complex features needing deep reasoning for architecture, cost-effective execution
Coordinate agents through hook events rather than direct orchestration.
When to use: Reactive workflows, hook-triggered automation, loosely-coupled agent pipelines
Full end-to-end plan pipeline: /plan-start, /plan-validate, /plan-execute as a coherent workflow.
When to use: Any significant feature where planning rigor pays off before writing code
Multi-session task tracking with TodoWrite, tasks API, and context persistence across sessions.
When to use: Long-running tasks spanning multiple sessions, team coordination, complex backlogs
Quick Selection Guide
Section titled “Quick Selection Guide”| Your Situation | Recommended Workflow |
|---|---|
| New to codebase | Exploration Workflow + Search Tools Mastery |
| Complex feature | Plan-Driven or Spec-First |
| Need reliability | TDD with Claude |
| Large refactoring | Search Tools Mastery |
| UI implementation | Design to Code |
| Code quality | Iterative Refinement |
| New project from template | Skeleton Projects |
| Team AI instructions | Team AI Instructions |
| Enforce mandatory workflow steps | Changelog Fragments |
| Skill routing from natural-language prompts | Smart-Suggest Routing |
| Unknown feasibility, multi-day feature | RPI: Research → Plan → Implement |
| Documentation | PDF Generation |
| Social previews | OG Image Generation |
| Conference talk from raw material | Talk Preparation Pipeline |
| Audio feedback | TTS Setup |
| Deterministic multi-agent orchestration | Dynamic Workflows |
| Multi-agent tasks | Agent Teams |
| First agent team | Agent Teams Quick Start |
| Cost-optimized planning | Dual-Instance Planning |
| Hook-driven automation | Event-Driven Agents |
| Full plan workflow | Plan Pipeline |
| Multi-session tracking | Task Management |
| Strategic gate before coding | Cognitive Mode Switching |
| Non-MCP browser automation | Cognitive Mode Switching |
Contributing
Section titled “Contributing”New workflow ideas? Open an issue or PR in the main repository.
Workflow Template Structure:
- Title & Purpose
- When to Use
- Prerequisites
- Step-by-Step Guide
- Real-World Examples
- Common Pitfalls
- Related Workflows
Last updated: March 2026