I tested whether my CLAUDE.md was actually loading in Claude Cowork. The setup I'd have picked first silently did nothing.
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I keep my agent's standing rules in a file so it reads them at the start of every session. Obvious question I had not actually checked: does it read them? So I tested it. Five folders, one variable at a time, same prompt every run ("hello"). The rule inside each file said the reply had to begin wit…
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