Comment by EdwardDiego
12 hours ago
I've put some stuff in my global Claude.md to avoid things like...
* Claude trying to install packages into my Python system interpreter - (always use uv and venvs)
* Claude pushing to main - (don't push to main ever)
* When creating a PR, completely ignoring how to contribute (always read CONTRIBUTING.md when creating a PR)
* Yellow ANSI text in console output - (Color choices must be visible on both dark and light backgrounds)
Because I got sick of repeating myself about the basics.
Mine has "always run `task build` before claiming a task as done"
For all of my projects task build runs linters, tests and builds the project with as little output as possible on a happy path.
This catches a bunch of "it's a pre-existing issue" stuff from Claude. Sometimes I ask it to run build first, then start implementing just so that it can prove to itself that no, it wasn't a pre-existing issue, you broke something.