When Claude Code appears to ignore CLAUDE.md, rewriting the file is often the wrong first move. The...
When Claude Code appears to ignore CLAUDE.md, rewriting the file is often the wrong first move.
The symptom can come from three different layers:
The instruction never entered the active session.
The instruction loaded, but the model did not follow it in the task.
The instruction describes an outcome that should have been enforced outside the model.
A CLAUDE.md the assistant ignores is not a content problem. It is a delivery problem. The fix is how,...
You wrote a detailed CLAUDE.md, and Claude Code still gets things wrong — wrong convention, touches...
Half of the "Claude Code is ignoring my rules" reports I see have the same root cause: the rule lives...
Claude Code follows CLAUDE.md about 80% of the time, and that number drops as the file grows. Treat it as an instruction budget —…
There's a category error hiding in most agent configs: treating a rules file as an enforcement...
A pattern I keep seeing (and kept doing myself): Claude ignores a rule, so you open CLAUDE.md and...
