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Choosing Between a Skill and a CLAUDE.md Entry

A backend team wants Claude Code to reliably know two things:

  • Fact A: "We use uv instead of pip for all Python dependency management in this repo."
  • Fact B: A twelve-step incident-response runbook (who to page, which dashboards to check, in what order, with the exact kubectl commands for each step) that's needed maybe once a month, when there's an active production incident.
  1. Recommend where each fact should live, and justify the choice using the cost model of each mechanism.
  2. For Fact B specifically, would you set disable-model-invocation: true? Justify your answer.
  3. Suppose the team instead put both facts in CLAUDE.md. What concrete problem would this cause as the runbook grows over time?

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