Stop writing CLAUDE.md from scratch

Source: Dev.to

Overview

Every Claude project starts the same way: you open a blank file and write CLAUDE.md. The structure is always the same—project overview, build commands, code style, what to avoid. You copy it from the last project, tweak a few things, forget half the important bits, and ship.

I did this maybe 15 times before it got old enough to fix.

Built a generator. Pick your stack—language, framework, testing setup—and it outputs a CLAUDE.md you can actually use. Takes about 30 seconds. No account, no install, runs in the browser.

It won’t write the custom bits specific to your project, but the skeleton is done and correct. The stuff you always forget—how to run tests, which directories to ignore, how you want files named—is already in there.

The templates are opinionated but not weird: Python/pytest, Node/Jest, that sort of thing. If your stack isn’t there it’s on GitHub, so just open a PR.

Tool

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