You start a long Claude Code task at your desk, then you want to get up. Make coffee, go for a walk, sit on the couch. The agent is halfway through a refactor and about to ask you a question you’d like to answer without walking back to the computer.
Look for the longest sentence in the docs of any project that’s a few years old. It’s usually a monster: three clauses, a parenthesis, an exception tucked in at the end. Every fix added a clause instead of a sentence, because that’s the smallest diff.
Your agent follows your conventions. Until it doesn’t.
The context fills up and the rules get compacted away. A subagent starts fresh and never saw them. Two skills say different things. Then the branch is feat/add-export on Monday and add-export-feature on Tuesday, a commit has no footer, a .env file gets staged.
Most AI coding workflows stop where the fun ends: the agent writes code, and you do the rest. Create the branch, write the commit, open the PR, refresh the checks page, read the review comments, fix them, push, refresh again.
