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May 21, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude Code Harness: Best Practices for AI Coding in Large Codebases

Anthropic’s applied‑AI team found that the success of Claude Code in million‑line monorepos and multi‑repo microservice environments depends far more on a well‑engineered harness—such as layered CLAUDE.md files, hooks, skills, plugins, LSP integration, MCP servers and sub‑agents—than on the underlying model itself.