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Why does my AI coding assistant ignore my CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and Cursor rules?

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You put one line in CLAUDE.md : never push directly to main. You ask the assistant what the project rules are, and it reads that line back to you word for word. Twenty minutes into a refactor it runs git push origin main . So you write the rule in capitals, add IMPORTANT in front of it, copy it int…

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  1. 2026-09-21 03:56 · DEV Community — AI
    Why does my AI coding assistant ignore my CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and Cursor rules?

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