Claude Code is the most capable reasoning tool in any developer's stack. It handles ambiguous, multi-step problems better than Copilot or Cursor. But it shares the same fundamental limitation: it only knows what you show it.
On a complex ticket — one that spans 5 services, 20 files, and years of accumulated decisions — Claude Code is working with maybe 10% of the context it needs. The other 90% is scattered across your codebase, git history, and your team's collective memory.
The Context Gap
When you ask Claude Code "how should I implement this ticket?", it needs to know: