Check Claude's project summaries into your repo — they're better than human docs

A developer on HN shares a practical workflow: after using Claude on a project, ask it to write a structured, high-level summary of what was solved and what changed, review it, then commit it to the repo. The summaries are comparable in quality to what the developer would write themselves, but take 10 seconds instead of an hour — and reviewing takes nowhere near an hour.

Key points from the post:

• Don't throw away Claude's handoff documents. Commit them as PROJECT.md or similar.
• Claude can also write a fresh overview from scratch at the end of a project.
• The developer personally reviews and edits before committing — same as with a human programmer's work.
• One gotcha: Claude copied a "Approved-by" paragraph from a previous summary into the new one. Add instructions in CLAUDE.md to prevent this.
• The advice isn't obvious, but the author found it game-changing for project continuity.

Practical takeaway: at the end of any Claude-heavy project, have it generate a summary and commit it. It might save the next developer — or your future self — hours of digging through git history.