CLAUDE.md — the kitchen contract
Skills are the recipes. MCP connectors are the appliances. CLAUDE.md is the book the chef has to follow every shift — standing orders for a folder, not a new product. Cowork reads it at the start of every task in that folder. Drop five messy policies in. Cowork turns them into a wiki, then writes the quality review you can open on Monday.
Download the Cedar Ward folder (.zip)
One picture, then the names
The robot is not the point. The book on the left is. A kitchen only works if the recipes, the tools, and the standing orders agree. CLAUDE.md is those standing orders. It is read at the start of every session. You do not re-explain the job.
A short file, left in the project
This is the whole brief. Read the folder. Make a wiki. Write a summary the quality committee can use. Do not invent a rule that is not in the files.
# Cedar Ward — standing orders You are the unit's second brain for written policy. This folder is a teaching copy. It is not KHCC policy. ## When files land in policies/ 1. Read every document, including appendices. 2. Convert each into one wiki note in wiki/. 3. Link notes wherever they share a topic. 4. Write summary.html for the quality committee. ## The summary must include - Inventory of the documents - Contradictions, with the quoted sentences - Errors, duplications, and suggestions - Who should own each fix ## Hard rules - Do not invent a rule that is not in the files. - If you are unsure, say so. - Never paste a real patient name or MRN.
Five policies, dropped in a folder
Cedar Ward, Riverside Children’s Cancer Centre. Made up on purpose. Five files that a real unit would recognise — and that do not agree with each other. That is the point of the exercise.
POL-CW-01
Febrile neutropenia
POL-CW-02
Central lines
POL-CW-03
Visitors & isolation
POL-CW-04
Chemo safety
POL-CW-05
Discharge fever leaflet
Three age bands. Two ANC cut-offs. Two first-line antibiotics. The family leaflet tells parents to wait until morning.
Run it in Cowork: unzip the folder into your Cowork Playground, start a task in that folder, and paste:
Follow CLAUDE.md in this folder. New files have landed in policies/. Do everything it says, and show me your plan first.
Second brain — one note per file
A wiki note is not a rewrite. It is the rules, the links, and the open questions. The map is those links — febrile neutropenia sits in the middle because every other note argues with it. Click a card, or a dot, to open the file.
Cedar Ward wiki as a map
A network of five wiki notes in the middle, each linked to its source policy and to the notes it disagrees with. Febrile neutropenia is the hub.
Wiki note Source file
This is the same folder as a map. Dark dots are notes. Pale dots are the files they came from. Hover a dot. Click it to open the file.
The file the committee actually opens
summary.html is not a chat reply. It is a briefing: inventory, quoted contradictions, errors, duplications, and who should fix what. The first screen is the sentence families take home next to the sentence Infectious Diseases wrote.
CLAUDE.md is the standing orders for the folder. That is how a drop of policies becomes a wiki and a quality review, instead of another chat you cannot find next week.