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Comment by jwilliams

1 day ago

> Simply put: whatever you write in CLAUDE.md, Claude will follow.

No.

CLAUDE.md is just prompt text. Compaction rewrites prompt text.

If it matters, enforce it in other ways.

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hbarka  1 day ago

CLAUDE.md survives compaction.

  • jwilliams  1 day ago

    It's meant to, yes.

taormina  1 day ago

Exactly!

adshotco  1 day ago

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