Documenting protocols and standards made a noticeable difference in Claude Code’s consistency. Adding just-in-time protocol checking, where he refers to a reference instead of reading in all the files, allowed him to document even more things (which of course he loves to do), but because he referred to his protocols only when he needed to, he made more efficient use of his tokens. We added features! Wrote tests! Improved stability!

Our app had finally reached a point where I felt comfortable ...