What actually belongs in CLAUDE.md?
Mine grew to 600 lines and the agent ignores most of it. Time to talk about what earns a slot in the most expensive real estate in your repo.
Claude Code2.4.17 repliesDiscussion10h ago
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Mine grew to 600 lines and the agent ignores most of it. Time to talk about what earns a slot in the most expensive real estate in your repo.
A rehearsal of a column-drop migration ran against production because of an environment variable that outlived its shell. Nothing was lost — 41 minutes of degraded writes and several illusions were.
Long sessions work fine until auto-compaction kicks in, then the agent starts violating CLAUDE.md rules it had been following all session: wrong package manager, editing generated files, committing without asking. The rules are still on disk; it just stops consulting them.