LLMs need checkpoints of knowledge (context) that is based on human judgment.

Context is a stepping stone that gives you leverage.

Good context is great.

Bad context is terrible.

When LLMs do it themselves they do middling or even bad context and that spirals.^[fa]

That's why things like Claude.md are not a hack.

They are the human making higher level contextual assertions.

Claude leaving Claude.md notes to itself help improve quality in your codebase is an example of a coactive surface.

The human can then co-create that context, editing, curating, adding.

How can we generalize that interaction?