Claude Code Efficiency Guide — AI skill for Claude Code
Free, open-source guide to optimize Claude Code, reduce token waste, lower costs, and improve AI coding efficiency without sacrificing quality.
How to install Claude Code Efficiency Guide
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~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Claude Code Efficiency Guide does
Free, open-source guide to optimize Claude Code, reduce token waste, lower costs, and improve AI coding efficiency without sacrificing quality.
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README
Claude Code — Professional Guide to Optimizing Tokens, Context, and Resources
**Practical handbook | October 15, 2026 edition | Language: English** Focus: software development with Claude Opus models (including the model referred to by the user as “Opus 5.5”), Claude Code on Windows, and WordPress, TypeScript, Node.js, and Electron projects.
Table of Contents
- Goals and core principles
- Quick start: 12 golden rules
- Initial configuration and model selection
- Reasoning effort
- Context, clear, compact, and work continuity
- Prompt caching: preserving its benefits
- Exploring repositories with minimal overhead
- CLAUDE.md, project rules, and skills
- Subagents and cheaper models: when they pay off
- MCP, LSP, hooks, and automation
- Testing, debugging, and preventing loops
- Everyday Claude Code commands
- Ready-to-copy prompts
- Realistic scenarios: WordPress, Electron, TypeScript
- A complete professional daily workflow
- Measuring results, quotas, and savings
- What NOT to do: false optimizations
- Operational checklists
- Ready-to-use CLAUDE.md template
- Glossary and official sources
1. Goals and core
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