Configuration

This page is a cheat-sheet of the configuration settings for Claude. This is useful if you’re coming from Copilot and you want to know where to move things.

Paths

The following are locations of important files in <project-root>:

.claude
  /skills/[SKILL-NAME]/SKILL.md
  /commands/<COMMAND-NAME>.md
  /agents/<SUB-AGENT>.md
  settings.local.md
.mcp.json

We’ll go through each if these in more detail below:

settings.local.json

{
  "enableAllProjectMcpServers": true,
  "enabledMcpjsonServers": [
    "atlassian"
  ],
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "WebFetch(domain:docs.anthropic.com)"
    ]
  }
}

Claude for VSCode needs resetting after a skill is created

Sub Agents

Create custom subagents - Claude Code Docs

`name`	Unique id, becomes the agent name
`description`	When Claude should delegate to this agent
`tools`	Tool allowlist (inherits all if omitted)
`model`	`sonnet`, `opus`, `haiku`, or `inherit`
`permissionMode`	`default`, `acceptEdits`, `dontAsk`, `bypassPermissions`
`skills`	Skills to preload into agent context
`memory`	`user`, `project`, or `local` for persistent memory
`context: fork`	Run in isolated worktree
`background`	Run concurrently by default

.mcp.json

Configuration for MCP services.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "atlassian": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse"
    },
    "filesystem": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/Users/justinmeyer/dev/western-carolina-discovery"
      ]
    }
  }
}