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Honestly, if you've ever looked at a claude.md file, it seems like absolute madness. I feel like I'm reading affirmations from AA.
by cogman10 11mo ago
Honestly, if you've ever looked at a claude.md file, it seems like absolute madness. I feel like I'm reading affirmations from AA.
- manmal 11mo agoIt’s magical incantations that might or might not protect you from bad behavior Claude learned from underqualified RL instructors. A classic instruction I have in CLAUDE.md is „Never delete a test. You are only allowed to replace with a test that covers the same branches.“ and another one „Never mention Claude in a commit message“. Of course those sometimes fail, so I do have a message hook that enforces a certain style of git messages.
- Havoc 11mo ago> Never mention Claude in a commit message“. Of course those sometimes fail, It’s hardcoded into the system prompt which is why your CLAUDE.md approach fails. Ended up intercepting it out via proxy
- manmal 11mo agoThanks for this idea!
- HWR_14 11mo agoWhy would it be bad to mention Claude in a commit message?
- manmal 11mo agoJust because Claude ran the commit command, doesn’t mean it wrote the code. That’s just a nasty marketing hack from Anthropic.
- theshrike79 11mo agoWay too many agent prompt files are just fan fiction or D&D character background documents that have no actual effect on what the agent does =)