Question 1

Running it in your home folder

Accepted Answer

Claude Code can read and edit everything in the folder you started it in. Start it inside the project you are working on, not in your home directory, and it stays focused on the right files.

Question 2

Waiting instead of steering

Accepted Answer

You can type while it is working. A message sent mid-task redirects it in real time. You do not have to let a wrong direction run to the end.

Question 3

Never clearing the context

Accepted Answer

Everything read stays in the window. A session that has been open all day is slower, more expensive and more confused than a fresh one. Clear it between unrelated tasks.

Question 4

Approving every prompt by hand

Accepted Answer

The /permissions command lets you pre-approve the tools you always allow — reading files, running your test command — so you are only asked about things that actually deserve a question.

Question 5

Not writing a CLAUDE.md

Accepted Answer

Run /init once. Everything you would otherwise repeat in every session — the stack, the conventions, the command that runs the tests — belongs in that file.

Question 6

Asking for the whole feature in one line

Accepted Answer

Ask for a plan, approve the plan, then let it build. Plan mode exists for exactly this, and the result is closer to what you meant.

Question 7

Assuming it verified its own work

Accepted Answer

Ask it to run the tests, open the page, or print the output. A change that compiles is not a change that works, and it will say so honestly if you ask it to check.

Question 8

Losing track of parallel sessions

Accepted Answer

Most people end up with several terminals running at once and no idea which is waiting for them. That is the problem Peach was built to solve: one window showing every session, which is working, which is asking you a question, and what each one just said.

Eight things that trip up beginners