# How to keep work moving while you are away

1. Ask Claude: "Add the contents of the downloaded file work-without-me.md to the end of the file ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, and if that file does not exist, create it".
2. Close Claude Code and open it again: the rules are read at startup.
3. When you leave, start your request with the words "work without me". The mode ends with your next message.

Check:

1. Ask Claude: "Work without me. Come up with a name for my coffee shop and write an opening announcement". Claude does not ask which name you like: it picks one itself, writes the announcement, and ends with a report with the parts "Done without you" and "Not done".
2. Send Claude any message without those words: the mode is off, and the reply has no two-part report.