Comment by EGreg

Best Claude Code daily-driver guide I’ve read. Though I’ve only read two. The “let Claude write rules for itself” CLAUDE.md pattern is the highest-ROI habit in there. Buth here’s the thing. The assumption underneath: this works when Claude mostly follows CLAUDE.md. Anthropic’s own engineering post from May 25 (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude) reports their telemetry shows ~93% of permission prompts get clicked through and ~17% of dangerous actions slip past the auto-mode filter.

Their conclusion: environment-layer containment first, then model-layer steering. CLAUDE.md is the right configuration layer but it is not a containment layer. Worth thinking about whether your worst case is a lost afternoon or a lost database and all backups deleted, too: https://safebots.ai/compromise.html

But the more important point are the costs. People are starting to realize just how costly it can be to run agents without precomputing and caching: https://safebots.ai/costs.html and self-orchestrating agents can go up to 1000x: https://safebots.ai/kimi.html