# I was wasting Claude until I learned the RCCF method

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## What Jamie wrote

There is an art to working with any agent and this structure for working with coding agents seems like a good approach: role, context, command, and format. I tend to be more directive when I'm doing work with Claude Code. I find that I'm more comfortable being the designer and architect and I give Claude more directive "implement an X using the Y to make Z happen" kind of thing. However you do it, approaching with some structure will give you better results.

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