Guide: Making Claude Code work with our monorepo setup (PNPM, Turborepo).

Just got Claude Code humming with our massive PNPM + Turborepo monorepo. It was a bit fussy at first, but the payoff is huge for navigating and refactoring across packages. Here's the config that did the trick.

The key was setting up the `claude_desktop_directories` config correctly and telling it to ignore the massive `node_modules` at the root.

**My `claude_desktop_config.json`:**
```json
{
"claude_desktop_directories": [
"/Users/owen/dev/monorepo/packages/app",
"/Users/owen/dev/monorepo/packages/ui",
"/Users/owen/dev/monorepo/packages/shared",
"/Users/owen/dev/monorepo/tooling"
],
"default_ignore_patterns": [
"**/node_modules",
"**/dist",
"**/.next",
"pnpm-lock.yaml"
]
}
```

**Important:** I added the monorepo root itself to the "Never index" list in Claude Code's settings, to prevent it from trying to crawl everything and getting stuck on the root `node_modules`.

Now I can:
* Ask for changes across multiple packages in one request
* Get accurate imports and dependency tracking
* Refactor shared types/library code with confidence

Anyone else running a similar setup? What patterns are working for you?

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