How is a root system different from a Claude Project?

A Project is a good tool. You give it standing instructions, drop in the files it should always know, and it keeps its own memory apart from everything else you do. For one defined piece of work that's often all you need.

You can read what a Project remembers and you can change its instructions, and the way it remembers and what it pulls in stays the tool's to decide. What comes out comes out in the chat, for you to copy where it needs to go.

The same instructions in a root system live in files you can copy, version, and hand to whoever takes over your operations. What comes out of a conversation lands where the work is: a file, a row in the CRM, a page on your site, there for the next conversation to read back.