Hot take: if you keep pasting the same workflow into Claude Code, it probably shouldn't be in your prompt anymore

I kept doing this with code reviews. Every time I finished a change I'd paste roughly the same instructions: check the diff, look for risky changes, flag missing tests, don't waste time commenting on formatting. Eventually I moved that into a Claude Code skill. Now I can call the same review workflow whenever I need it, and Claude can also use the skill when the request matches it. The part I like is that the full instructions don't sit in CLAUDE.md eating context for the whole session. The skill content gets loaded when it's actually needed. I think CLAUDE.md gets used for way too much stuff that is really a repeatable procedure. Project facts and permanent constraints belong there. A 30-line checklist you only need twice a day probably doesn't.