/story
Load full context in one command.
You closed Claude Code yesterday. Or last week. Or a month ago. You don't want to re-explain the project from scratch. This is where /story earns its keep: one command, full context, three things you could work on right now. Picking up from our storybook example.
Follow along
- 1.
Come back to your project folder
Open Claude Code inside the storybook folder you set up in the last tutorial. The .story/ directory is already there, committed, waiting. No warm-up, no re-onboarding, no recap.
- 2.
Run /story
Type the slash command and press Return. That's the only thing you need to type. Everything else is reading.
$/story - 3.
Watch what it loads
Claude reads your project spec (CLAUDE.md), your rules (RULES.md), your lessons (WORK_STRATEGIES.md), and the last handover if there is one. Then it looks at your open tickets, active issues, and current phase. For storybook, that's Phase I — scaffolding — with a handful of tickets ready to start.
- 4.
Read the snapshot
Claude comes back with a short summary: where you are, what's blocked, what's in progress, what's next. No hallucinations, no guessing — it's all read directly from the files in .story/.
- 5.
Pick from the three recommendations
/story finishes by proposing three pieces of work, ranked by priority. You read them, pick one, and say start. Under a minute from opening Claude Code to knowing exactly what to build next.