Claude Projects: How to Build and Set Up
The practical guide to instructions, knowledge files, memory, Skills, connectors, plugins, models, and automation.
TL;DR
- Claude Projects allow AI tasks to be set up with specific instructions, knowledge, conversations, and memory.
- Projects have six layers: Instructions, Knowledge files, Project memory, Skills, Connectors, and Artifacts.
- Project memory provides separate memory spaces for each Project, distinct from unrelated work.
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can expand Project knowledge capacity by up to ten times for paid users.
- The full guide explains building a Claude Project from scratch with starter files, instructions, tests, and quality checks.