You Need To Add This In Your Claude Code Setup Right Now

Claude Code setup has hidden settings most people never find, even daily users. This Claude Code tutorial shows how to use Claude Code better, from a smarter init to sessions that message each other. Claude Code tips and tricks for coding with AI, plus Claude Code tips you'll use every day. Thanks to Scrimba for sponsoring this video. Try Explain for free at https://scrimba.com/explain?via=ailabs-explain and turn your code into a narrated video walkthrough. Community with All Resources: https://ailabspro.io/?v=i6Q7bXnWGlM Got a software idea but don't have the team to build it? Autometa turns your ideas into production-ready software. Check out http://autometa.dev/yt to see what we can build for you. The Roundup: Our daily newsletter covering the AI stories. Join now: https://www.theroundup.so/ What we cover in this video How to Set Up Claude Code From the Start - The new init setting that the people who build Claude Code use themselves - Init asks how you work first, then makes a plan and builds your CLAUDE.md, skills and hooks - This is how to set up Claude Code so the setup fits the way you actually work - The import command moves your setup from Codex or Cursor, including instruction files and MCPs Keeping Your Setup Clean - Prompt audit, a claude api command, checks every instruction file and skill for outdated prompt engineering - Run it after a new model comes out, when most old instructions stop helping Claude - Skill doctor shows how often each skill is used and how many tokens it takes - The skills command sorts every skill by token cost so you can trim the rest Fewer Interruptions on Long Tasks - Auto mode setup teaches auto mode which commands you usually allow - Fewer permission prompts adds your safe, read-only commands to an allow list - Useful whether you use Claude Code for your automation setup, AI automation work like n8n workflows, or your own app A Lighter Startup - Stop the Claude app's connectors, like Notion and Slack, from loading into every session - Turn off artifacts so that tool stops using context - Both changes go in one settings file, and Claude can add them for you Testing Apps That Use AI - Build eval writes a fixed set of tests for an app that uses AI, including apps built on Claude AI models - Hillclimb keeps changing your app and only keeps the changes that score higher - Both call the API and cost real money each time they run - This is not a VS Code Claude API setup walkthrough. The claude api command shown here runs inside Claude Code While You're Working - Get back the option to clear context when you accept a plan - Save plans inside your project folder so your team can see them - Switch between five output styles, from concise to learning - Bring back thinking summaries with Control and O - Focus mode shows only your prompt, Claude's answer and a short summary Running More Than One Session - Branch copies your chat into a new session to try a different idea - Fork runs a side task in the background - Subtask starts a subagent that has your full chat in its context - Sessions can now message each other, which helps when Claude projects run across several sessions When You Walk Away - The ask user question timeout lets Claude pick the suggested answer and keep working - Local notifications tell you when a session is done or needs you Saving Your Usage - Opus plan uses Opus for planning and Sonnet for building - Set one model for all your subagents - Matters most on the Pro plan, where you hit your limit faster Free Claude Code Setup Upgrades - Claude Code is now free? Not what this video is about. But most settings here cost nothing to turn on, so this works as a complete setup guide to free upgrades - Only build eval and hillclimb cost API money - How to use and setup Claude Code settings: most go in the settings.json file in the main .claude folder - To setup Claude Code this way, you can ask Claude to edit the settings file for you Keyboard Shortcuts and Learning - Control and S stashes a prompt so you can send another one first - Control and Y brings back text you cleared by mistake - Control and underscore undoes your last change to a prompt - The powerup command gives you short interactive lessons inside Claude Code Why This Is the Best Claude Code Setup We've Found - Every setting here is one we kept after going through all of them - The best setup for Claude Code is one that knows how you work, and these settings teach it that 0:00 Intro 0:38 Better Init 1:47 Import Setup 2:33 Prompt Audit 3:26 Skill Doctor 4:13 Auto Mode Setup 5:23 Free Up Context 6:28 Build Evals 7:23 Plan Mode Fixes 8:39 Sponsor 9:36 Output Styles 10:13 Thinking Summaries 10:30 Focus Mode 11:16 Side Tasks 12:19 Multi-Session Fixes 13:59 Model Routing 15:05 Shortcuts 15:42 Powerup Hashtag: #Claude #ClaudeCode #n8n #aiAutomation #ClaudeAI #promptEngineering #ClaudeProjects #ClaudeCodeSetup