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Comment by renewiltord

21 hours ago

If you look at the code it will be obvious. Imagine I’m the creator of React. When someone does “create new app” I want to put a Claude.md in the dir so that they can get started easily.

I want this Claude.md to be useful. What is the natural solution to me?

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olalonde  21 hours ago

I'd probably do it like this: ask Claude to do a task, and when it fails, have it update its Claude.md so it doesn’t repeat the mistake. After a few iterations, once the Claude.md looks good, just copy-paste it into the scaffolding tool.

  • renewiltord  21 hours ago

    Right, so you see the part where you "ask Claude to do a task" and then "copy-paste it into the template"? He was automating that because he has some n tasks he wants it to do without damaging the prior tasks.

    • olalonde  20 hours ago

      You can just clear the context or restart your Claude instance between tasks. e.g.:

        > do task 1
  ...task fails...
  > please update Claude.md so you don't make X mistake
  > /clear
  > do task 2
  ... task fails ...
  > please update Claude.md so you don't make Y mistake
  > /clear
  etc.

      If you want a clean state between tasks you can just commit your Claude.md and `git reset --hard`.

      I just don't get why you'd need have to a separate Claude that is solely responsible for updating Claude.md. Maybe they didn't want to bother with git?

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