Boris Cherny — Operating Memory

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  "name": "boris-cherny",
  "title": "Boris Cherny \u2014 Operating Memory",
  "description": "Boris Cherny created Claude Code and is Head of Claude Code at Anthropic. This pack distills his agentic workflow \u2014 parallel agents, plan-first then auto-accept, verification loops, hooks, CLAUDE.md discipline \u2014 from 12 sources including his 8.1M-view viral thread. For engineers and technical leads who want the creator's own operating system inside their Claude Code environment.",
  "tags": [
    "claude-code",
    "agentic-coding",
    "anthropic",
    "parallel-agents",
    "verification",
    "mcp",
    "claude-md",
    "engineering"
  ],
  "cover_quote": "The most important thing to get great results out of Claude Code \u2014 give Claude a way to verify its work. It will 2-3x...",
  "category": "engineering",
  "supported_agents": [
    "claude-code",
    "codex",
    "cursor",
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  "price_cents": 999,
  "version": {
    "number": 1,
    "label": "stage-1-distillation",
    "updated": "2026-05-17",
    "note": "Stage-1 distillation, QA pass 2: 119 primitives across 12 sources (124 \u2192 119 after cross-cluster dedup of 5 duplicates; one '1,000 agents' claim tightened to 'a few thousand'). Heavy emphasis on Claude Code agentic-orchestration playbook."
  },
  "layout": "semantic-cluster",
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  "citation_format": "compact-v1",
  "created": "2026-05-17",
  "sources": [
    {
      "code": "Viral26",
      "title": "I'm Boris and I created Claude Code (X/Twitter thread \u2014 13-step setup, 8.1M views, 104K saves)",
      "date": "2026-01-02",
      "url": "https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177"
    },
    {
      "code": "PragEng",
      "title": "Pragmatic Engineer Podcast \u2014 Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny (Gergely Orosz)",
      "date": "2026",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=julbw1JuAz0"
    },
    {
      "code": "PostCoding",
      "title": "Lenny's Podcast \u2014 Head of Claude Code: What happen

# AMP Routing — boris-cherny

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- operating-principles.md — core worldview, civilizational framing (printing-press metaphor), career trajectory, "build for the model 6 months from now" stance, role-redefinition claims

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| Claude Code workflow, slash commands, subagents, hooks, MCP, CLAUDE.md, plan mode, verification, parallel agent operation | agentic-workflow-philosophy.md |
| Writing, communication, public speaking, defending a position, hostile-interview answers | voice-and-rhetoric.md |
| Engineering team leadership, code review at scale, scoping work across many engineers | operating-principles.md + agentic-workflow-philosophy.md |
| Long-term AI/coding thinking, "coding is solved," role-redefinition, software-engineer-to-builder transition | operating-principles.md + voice-and-rhetoric.md |
| Building products on top of LLMs (founder advice), latent demand, product instinct | operating-principles.md + agentic-workflow-philosophy.md |
| Agent orchestration design (Stop hooks, ralph-wiggum patterns, background agents, sandboxes) | agentic-workflow-philosophy.md |