[Scenario 2: Code Generation with Claude Code] Your team uses Claude Code for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation, integrated into daily development with custom slash commands and CLAUDE.md configuration — and you must judge when plan mode beats direct execution.

You have completed a thorough analysis of a module and now want to compare two competing refactoring strategies — developing each independently from that same analysis baseline without the explorations contaminating each other. Which capability fits?

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[Scenario 2: Code Generation with Claude Code] Your team uses Claude Code for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation, integrated into daily development with custom slash commands and CLAUDE.md configuration — and you must judge when plan mode beats direct execution.

You have completed a thorough analysis of a module and now want to compare two competing refactoring strategies — developing each independently from that same analysis baseline without the explorations contaminating each other. Which capability fits?

Accepted Answer

Use fork_session to create independent branches from the shared analysis baseline, exploring one strategy per branch

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Run both strategies sequentially in the same session, asking Claude to forget the first before starting the second

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Open two brand-new sessions and redo the module analysis in each

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Use /compact between the two strategies

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