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Why Claude Code ignores CLAUDE.md, and what sticks.

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Short answer: CLAUDE.md is a request, not a lock. Claude Code loads it as context and tries to follow it, and Anthropic's docs say plainly there's no guarantee. When I went through my own history, most of the rules I'd have blamed Claude for ignoring were never written down, or were written for som…

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  1. 2026-10-09 13:32 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Claude Code ignores CLAUDE.md, and what sticks.

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