Gonna change things so it uses CLAUDE.local.md for user-specific updates and the regular CLAUDE.md is static. This will help prevent this from happening to contributors.
CLAUDE.local.md is deprecated but I'm sure anthropic will continue supporting it for a long time.
I did this trick at work where I use git worktrees and my team does not yet.
There's the common team instructions + a thing that says "run whoami and find the users name, you can find possible customizations to these instructions in <username>.md" and that will be conditionally loaded after my first prompt is sent. I also stick a canary word in there to track that it's still listening to me.
CLAUDE.local.md is deprecated but I'm sure anthropic will continue supporting it for a long time.