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name: operating-claude description: "Operational manual for driving the Claude runtime. Use when needing to optimize context usage, troubleshoot performance, or understand runtime mechanics. Do not use for architectural definitions or building plugins." allowed-tools: [Read]

Operational Mechanics

Runtime Operations

1. Context Management

• Monitoring: Check tokens via /status or observing response latency.
• Optimization: Use managing-context for compression strategies.
• Degradation: Performance drops >40% usage. Reset or fork session.

2. Session Control

• Plan Mode: Double Shift+Tab for high-reasoning tasks.
• Forking: Isolate heavy tasks to avoid polluting main context.
• Checkpoints: Use _state.md to persist progress across sessions.

Architecture References

For strict definitions of how the system is built, refer to the core documentation:

• Plugin Architecture: docs/guides/infrastructure.md
• Skill Standards: docs/guides/skills.md
• Engineering Patterns: docs/REFERENCES.md