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Quick Start

Two Things to Know First

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Scope creep is your responsibility. Claude over-builds by default — if you ask it to paint the kitchen, it may want to replace the cabinets too. In your requirements, say what you want and what you don’t need yet. When Claude proposes stories, cut anything unnecessary before approving. Everything approved gets built. Story review is your most important guardrail.

Know what epics and stories are before you review them. An epic is a major feature area — user authentication, order management, admin panel. A story is one specific thing a user can do or notice within it. A story is not a technical task and not an entire feature — it is one user-visible action: “A user can log in with their email and password.” When Claude proposes stories for each epic, your job is to confirm the scope is right: nothing missing, nothing unnecessary.

What You Need

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  • Claude Code — install from claude.ai/code
  • Node.js 22 or later — nodejs.org
  • Git and a GitHub repository with Actions enabled

Set Up Your Project

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  1. Go to the Stadium 8 template on GitHub and click Use this template.
  2. Clone your new repo and open it in Claude Code.

Start Building

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Put your materials in documentation/ (a plain-language feature description is enough), then type:

/start

Claude will guide you through the rest — approvals, planning, and building. Use /status to check where you are at any point, and /continue to resume after any interruption.

For full detail, see Getting Started.