STOP EARLY
When it is going badly, stop.
Claude trying to pull a screw with a hammer? Stop. Do not sit there cheering that the next attempt will land.
Step back, reformulate the prompt, maybe start a new session carrying the lesson from the previous one.
Insisting costs tokens and degrades the next attempt, because the context fills up with broken tries the model starts treating as precedent.
In practice
# Signal: Claude tried twice, broke twice.
# Do not go for a blind third attempt.
/clear
# Reformulate with the lesson from the attempt:
> the previous approach failed because
[X]. Let's try [Y] instead, attacking
[Z] first.This practice is part of Claude Code OS, the full blueprint of the practices that separate following a tutorial from actually working with Claude. Ler em português.