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Published by harper.blog (Harper Reed) (T1 source). The original is at https://harper.blog/2025/05/08/basic-claude-code/.

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Harper Reed describes his updated agentic coding workflow using Claude Code, having migrated from Aider. He uses GPT-4o to refine ideas, reasoning models (o1-pro or o3) to write the spec and generate prompts, saves spec.md and prompt_plan.md in the project root, then feeds a structured instruction to Claude Code to implement and commit each prompt.

Firsthand practitioner walkthrough of a spec-and-prompt-plan workflow fed to Claude Code, with the actual instruction template included for direct reuse.

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