Course-correct Early

Correct Claude early.

Small course corrections are cheap. Long corrections after a session has explored the wrong approach are expensive because the failed path now fills context.

Useful interventions

• Press Esc to stop work mid-action.
• Use /rewind or double Esc to go back to a checkpoint.
• Say “undo that” when the last change is wrong.
• Use /clear when the session has accumulated irrelevant context.

Better correction prompts

Stop. This is solving the wrong problem.
The actual issue is [specific issue]. Focus only on [scope].
Do not continue with the previous approach.

Undo the last change. Instead, inspect [file] and explain the current flow before editing.

When to restart

After two failed corrections on the same issue, start fresh. Write a new prompt that includes the symptom, scope, constraints, and verification step.