How to setup your Claude code project?
TL;DR
Most developers skip the setup and just start prompting. That's the mistake.
A proper Claude Code project lives inside a .๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ/ folder. Start with ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐.๐บ๐ฑ as Claude's instruction manual. Split it into a ๐ฟ๐๐น๐ฒ๐/ folder as it grows. Add ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐/ for repeatable workflows, ๐๐ธ๐ถ๐น๐น๐/ for context-triggered automation, and ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐/ for isolated subagents. Lock down permissions in ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐.๐ท๐๐ผ๐ป.
There are two .๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ/ folders: one committed with your repo, one global at ~/.๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ/ for personal preferences and auto-memory across projects.
The .๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ/ folder is infrastructure. Treat it like one.
The article below is a complete guide to ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐.๐บ๐ฑ, custom commands, skills, agents, and permissions, and how to set them up properly.
You can now push what youโre building in Claude Code directly into Figma.
With the latest updates to the Figma MCP server, build a working prototype in code, then send it to a Figma canvas to explore multiple versions.
Claude Code in Figma isn't a feature. It's a hostile takeover of the entire dev handoff industry.
Every "design-to-code" tool for the past decade has tried to make developers' lives easier. Figma just said "what if we made developers optional?"
Here's what nobody's saying: the designer-developer handoff was never a technical problem. It was a political one. A negotiated border between two tribes with different languages, different incentives, and different ideas about what "done" means.
Claude Code in Figma doesn't build a better bridge. It annexes the territory.
The devs celebrating this as "finally, accurate specs!" are missing the plot. You're not getting better handoffs. You're getting automated out of the handoff entirely. That Figma file doesn't need you to interpret it anymore. It interprets itself.
The real winners? Designers who always secretly resented waiting three sprints for their vision to get "technically feasible'd" into something unrecognizable.
The real losers? Not developers. They'll just move up the stack. It's the entire ecosystem of handoff tools, design system consultants, and "bridging the gap" conference talks that just became solutions to a problem that no longer exists.
Figma didn't integrate Claude Code. They declared independence from your sprint planning.
Anthropic just pledged Claude will stay completely ad-free
no sponsored links, no advertiser influence in responses. A big contrast to ChatGPT's ad plans. Keeping AI as a pure space for thinking & dev work! ๐ #AI#Claude#TechNews