Opinionated Claude Code Setup

This setup is a starting point, not a universal rule. It optimizes for long-running work, fewer distractions, more preserved context, and privacy-focused defaults.

Recommended settings

Add this to ~/.claude/settings.json and adjust anything that does not match your workflow.

{
  "agentPushNotifEnabled": true,
  "inputNeededNotifEnabled": true,
  "cleanupPeriodDays": 365,
  "autoCompactWindow": 200000,
  "spinnerTipsEnabled": false,
  "attribution": {
    "commit": "",
    "pr": "",
    "sessionUrl": false
  },
  "env": {
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY": "1",
    "DISABLE_ERROR_REPORTING": "1"
  }
}

Why these defaults

Push notifications make long-running work easier to leave alone. They are only sent while Remote Control is connected.
Longer cleanup retention makes /resume more valuable.
A fixed auto-compact window keeps sessions compacting at 200K tokens instead of the default of about 967K on 1M-context models. You can also set it with /autocompact 200k.
Spinner tips can be distracting once you know the basics.
Empty attribution fields, plus sessionUrl: false, keep commits and PRs closer to your normal templates.
Privacy-focused environment variables turn off error reporting and session surveys.

Telemetry or Remote Control: pick one

DISABLE_TELEMETRY is deliberately not in this file. It also turns off feature-flag fetching, which makes Remote Control unavailable, so the two notification settings above would do nothing. DO_NOT_TRACK, CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC, and DISABLE_GROWTHBOOK have the same effect.

If you care more about telemetry than about Remote Control, add "DISABLE_TELEMETRY": "1" under env and remove the two notification settings. See Telemetry and model improvement.

Opinionated Claude Code Setup

Recommended settings

Why these defaults

Telemetry or Remote Control: pick one

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