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CLAUDE.md in my projects only has coding / architecture guidelines. Here's what not to do. Here's what you should do. Here are my preferences. Here's where the important things are.

Even though my CLAUDE.md is small though, often my rules are ignored. Not always though, so it's still at least somewhat useful!



I’m pretty sure Claude just uses mine to keep a running list of pressure points for when I get cross with it.


I'm screwed when the robot psychological warfare begins. They'll make everything I read have 4 space indentation... and I'll just hand over the keys.


im trying out some other cc features, and om thinking maybe hooks can do something with this.

have a hook on switching out of plan, and maybe on edits, that passes the change to haiku with the claude.md to see if it matches or not


What's the hook for switching out of plan? I'd like to be launch a planning skill whenever claude writes a plan but it never picks up the skill, and I haven't found a hook that can force it to.


man that’s what I’m trying to build the whole time, but I keep getting json parsing errors. I’ve debugged a lot, but it seems their haiku is not consistent with the actual output. I want a hook that tells them at the end make sure you’ve built and run the relevant tests. Let me know if you need anything else.




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