Using ChatGrid in Claude Code

The scenario

You’re debugging a 502 error on the payments webhook endpoint. Your team has a ChatGrid board with architecture docs, tutorials, and past incident postmortems. The notes and extracted source text have already been vectorized, so Claude Code can search them. Here’s how you use it without leaving the terminal.

Step 1: Search for relevant knowledge

> Search the payments board for webhook 502 errors

Claude Code finds two relevant vectorized sources:

A postmortem from February about webhook timeouts
Jordan’s architecture notes about the retry system

Step 2: Get context on the architecture

> Based on our board, how is the webhook endpoint structured?
  What middleware does it go through?

Claude Code searches the board and responds with specifics from your team’s docs — not generic advice.

> Search the board for Stripe webhook signature verification

Alex added a YouTube tutorial last week and vectorized the transcript notes. The relevant section is returned from those searchable notes.

Step 4: Add what you learn

You figure out the issue: the webhook timeout was set to 5 seconds, but Stripe sometimes takes 8 seconds to send the full payload. Save that knowledge for the team:

> Add this to the payments board:
  "Incident 2026-03-19: Webhook 502s caused by 5s timeout on
  /api/webhooks/stripe. Stripe payloads for subscription events
  can take up to 8s. Fix: increased timeout to 15s in
  fly.toml [http_service] section. Also added retry-after
  header handling."

Now the next person who hits this issue will find your notes instantly.

Step 5: Ask a broader question

> Based on everything on our payments board, what are the top 3
  reliability risks for our webhook system?

AI synthesizes across the searchable board text - postmortems, architecture notes, and tutorial transcript notes - and gives you a prioritized answer.

The full loop

Search board  -->  Get context  -->  Fix the issue  -->  Add what you learned
                                                              |
                                                              v
                                                    Next person finds it

Every debugging session makes the board smarter. Knowledge compounds instead of disappearing.

More example prompts

What you’re doing	What you say to Claude Code
Starting a new feature	”What does our board say about the payments data model?”
Reviewing a PR	”Search the board for our error handling conventions”
Debugging	”Search the board for issues with Supabase connection pooling”
Making a decision	”Based on our board, what are the pros/cons of Inngest vs Temporal?”
Onboarding	”Summarize everything on the payments board for a new team member”

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​The scenario

​Step 1: Search for relevant knowledge

​Step 2: Get context on the architecture

​Step 3: Find a related tutorial

​Step 4: Add what you learn

​Step 5: Ask a broader question

​The full loop

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The scenario

Step 1: Search for relevant knowledge

Step 2: Get context on the architecture

Step 3: Find a related tutorial

Step 4: Add what you learn

Step 5: Ask a broader question

The full loop

More example prompts