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I have also done this, but my results are very hit or miss. Claude rarely actually reads the other documentation files I point it to.

• dhorthy 11mo ago
  I think the key here is “if X then Y syntax” - this seems to be quite effective at piercing through the “probably ignore this” system message by highlighting WHEN a given instruction is “highly relevant”
  • throwaway314155 11mo ago
    What?
    • xpe 11mo ago
      It helps when questions intended to resolve ambiguity are not themselves hopelessly ambiguous. See also: "Help me help you" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Maguire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Maguire
• Sammi 11mo ago
  Yeah I don't trust any agent to follow document references consistently. I just manually add the relevant files to context every single time. Though I know some people who have built an mcp that does exactly this: https://www.usable.dev/ https://www.usable.dev/ It's basically a chat-bot frontend to your markdown files, with both rag and graph db indexes.
• wry_discontent 11mo ago
  That makes sense given that it's trained on real world developers.