Claude Code Workflow Visual: Memory Hierarchy, Skills, Hooks, and Loop

✍️ OpenClawRadar📅 Published: May 1, 2026🔗 Source
Claude Code Workflow Visual: Memory Hierarchy, Skills, Hooks, and Loop
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A Reddit user shared a workflow visual that maps out how Claude Code's components fit together: CLAUDE.md, memory hierarchy, skills, hooks, project structure, and the workflow loop.

Memory Layering

The visual clarifies context loading order:

  • ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md → global memory
  • /CLAUDE.md → repo context
  • ./subfolder/CLAUDE.md → scoped context

Subfolders append context, not replace it. This explains why sessions can feel overloaded when those files grow large.

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Skills

Instead of repeating prompts, define reusable patterns in .claude/skills/. Examples:

 .claude/skills/testing/SKILL.md
 .claude/skills/code-review/SKILL.md

Claude auto-invokes skills when the description matches.

Workflow Loop

The recommended loop:

 cd project && claude
 Plan mode
 Describe feature
 Auto accept /compact
 commit frequently

No single element is groundbreaking, but seeing it all together helps organize Claude Code usage.

The ecosystem is still evolving, and workflows remain personal.

📖 Read the full source: r/ClaudeAI

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