Plan Claude Code tasks with a simple prompt

another simple prompt that works wonders with an over zealous claude 3.7 sonnet:

“think about this step by step and plan the most simple and effective way to build {your_feature_here}.

make it DRY (don’t repeat yourself).

do not write code yet and put your suggestions in a markdown checklist inside the .ai folder”

it stops 3.7 going off the rails and lets you riff on a todo list before adding it to context to actually build the feature