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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
uvinstead ofpipfor 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
kubectlcommands for each step) that's needed maybe once a month, when there's an active production incident.
- Recommend where each fact should live, and justify the choice using the cost model of each mechanism.
- For Fact B specifically, would you set
disable-model-invocation: true? Justify your answer. - 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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