Get new hires productive in an unfamiliar codebase
New team members point the coding agent at the repository; it reads the project's guidance files, explains how data pipelines depend on each other and which sources feed which dashboards.
Steps
- Add a short guidance file (CLAUDE.md) at the repo root
- Ask where a given number on a dashboard comes from
- Let the agent list the files to read first for a task
Starter prompt
I'm new to this repo. Explain how the data flows from the raw sources to the revenue dashboard, which files matter most, and what I should read first to fix a bug in the weekly report.
Guardrail: Read-only questions are a safe start.
Prompts are our own examples. Results from sources are as reported by their authors.