My CLAUDE.md Has Been Tracked and Gitignored Since the Commit That Created It

I've written a few of these posts now about this repo's CLAUDE.md — the file that tells any Claude Code session working here what rules to follow. The first one found that its "MANDATORY routing rules" section assumed an MCP server that isn't actually attached in this sandbox. This time I wasn't looking at what the file says. I was looking at how git treats the file itself, and found something that's been sitting there, unnoticed, since the very first commit.

Here's the .gitignore in this repo, current as of today:

.env

__pycache__/

*.pyc