When writing instructions or a <a href="/en/glossary/workflow/skill/">Skill</a>, matching how specific the guidance should be to how error-tolerant the task actually is — deciding whether Claude gets an exact sequence to follow or just a general direction to judge for itself.

Splitting documentation into a main file plus several extension files, where the main file holds only a high-level overview and links pointing to detail, and the extended content only gets read when it's actually needed — so a large body of reference material doesn't consume context space upfront.

A reusable bundle of instructions and scripts that lets Claude follow an established workflow for a specific task type, instead of having the process re-explained from scratch every time.

A separate Claude instance the main session spawns to handle one specific job, with its own <a href="https://claudecowork-me.com/en/glossary/core-concepts/context-window-workplace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Context Window</a> and tool permissions, reporting back only the final result rather than flooding the main conversation with every intermediate step.