How to Set Up Claude Code for a Project with Skills, Agents, Hooks, and a Secure GitHub Repository

How to Set Up Claude Code for a Project with Skills, Agents, Hooks, and a Secure GitHub Repository

AI coding tools work best when they understand the project around the code.

A fresh Claude Code session can answer questions and edit files, but it does not automatically know your architecture decisions, coding standards, security expectations, testing rules, pull request format, or operational constraints. That context needs to live somewhere predictable.

This guide walks through a full Claude Code project setup using a reusable repository owned by desertfox33:

Reference repository: https://github.com/desertfox33/claude-code-project-template