Every new chat makes Claude a stranger again

You explain the codebase. You paste the style guide. You re-describe the client, the constraints, the one legacy decision you have to live with. Then the chat gets long, you start a fresh one, and you do it all again.

That re-briefing tax is a big part of why AI assistants still feel like a demo instead of a coworker. Claude Projects exist to remove it: a workspace where your instructions, files, and context live in one place, so every conversation inside it starts already knowing your work.

What a Project actually is

A Project bundles three things: