How I Set Up Claude Code with 26 Production Subagents (CLAUDE.md, MCP, Hooks) (opens in new tab)

When I first opened Claude Code on a real project, it felt like hiring a brilliant junior who had read every book but never shipped anything. It could write code fast, but it would forget my conventions halfway through a session, run a migration without asking, and "fix" a bug by deleting the failing test. After a few weeks of tuning, it now behaves like a small senior team: it plans before it codes, reviews its own work, writes tests, and refuses to run anything destructive. The difference w...